When I tryed to decode the string below in nodeJS using decodeURLCompnent:
var decoded = decodeURI('Ulysses%20Guimar%C3%A3es%20-%20lado%20par');
console.log(decoded);
I got
Ulysses Guimarães - lado par
Instead of
Avenida Ulysses Guimarães - lado par
But when I use the same code on the client side (browser) I can get the right char 'ã'.
Is there a way to convert from ã to ã in a Node script?
I cannot reproduce it in 0.10 or 0.11 versions of node.
You can convert first to second using new Buffer('Ulysses Guimarães - lado par', 'binary').toString('utf8')
, but it's a workaround, not a solution.
Are you sure you're calling decodeURI, not unescape?