decoding a unicode string in node.js

[winter vapor]

that's not what URI does

those are just unicode escapes

are you recieving the former as a string?

as in, the backslashes are double escaped

because that wouldn't work in browser either

then those strings are equivalent

can you just show your issue

you seem to be misunderstanding your problem

decodeURI is not relevant here

[winter vapor]

.

what's the code you're running

"\\"      // value \
"\\u002b" // value \u002b
"\u002b"  // value +

yeah that would happen in the browser as well

those are double escaped

[winter vapor]

you're seeing the right side of this

so you need to turn \\uXXXX into \uXXXX
you could use regex or i guess technically eval to do that (but don't use eval)

give me a sec, ill check if there's a more direct way

that's not how strings or regex work

[winter vapor]

both of those operate on the right side of this

that's just not how any language works

looks like JSON.parse is a usable replacement for eval here, since it'll process the escapes but safely

console.log(JSON.parse(example))

a regex solution would be example.replace(/\\u(?:\d{4}|\{\d+\})/g, (match) => String.fromCodePoint(Number(match.match(/\d+/)[0])))

that doesn't help me help you

how doesn't it work

ah yeah you need to enclose it with "

forgot to tell you

with that it works just fine