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Correctly display umlauts in alerting messages

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 6, 2025
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Hi.

I have successfully completed a script for InDesign. Now I just want to output a final message with the (dynamic) file name. Some of these files contain German umlauts (Ä, Ü, Ö). These and the spaces (not %20) should be displayed correctly in the warning message. How can I achieve this?

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Correct answer Peter Kahrel

Use decodeURI(). So instead of myFileName, use decodeURI(myFileName)

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Correct answer

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Use decodeURI(). So instead of myFileName, use decodeURI(myFileName)

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Thanks Peter. That was what I was looking for 🙂

Willi Adelberger

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I don't see problems with Umlaute but with the ordinary space.

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Unfortunately there are still problems with umlauts. 😞
But only with the document name.