URLDecode vs decodeURIComponent

[Guest]

Hi All,

I am working on windows 2000 server, cfmx 6.1

I have to encod an url parameter, i do that with the javascript function "encodeURIComponent()" because sometimes the sign "+" is in the string.
That works fine.
The problem is with latin characters non ascii:
myString = "Acteur / Métier";
url = "mysite?maVar="+encodeURIComponent(myString);

Server Side:
I have tried
<cfset theVar = url.maVar>
<cfset theVar = URLDecode(url.maVar)>
...
but each time the result is the same theVar = "Acteur / Métier"

Does any one know how to solv this?

[insuractive]

You could convert your string to base64. that should allow you to retain your special characters in a URL safe manner.

toBase64(MyString)

Then you could convert back on the other side. I'm a little fuzzy on the functions, but I think it s a combination of ToBinary() and ToString()

[Guest]

Thanks a lot.

Like i have to encode with javascript, i have found a function to do that http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html and Server Side i use
<cfset maVar = ToBinary(url.maVar)>
and
<cfset maVar = ToString(variables.maVar)>
and all is OK.