NodeJS decodeURIComponent not working properly

character-encoding, decodeuricomponent, latin1, node.js, utf-8

Solution

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?

Problem

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?

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