How to properly unescape non-ASCII cahracters in location.pathname-CodePudding

I have the following URL in the browser address bar:

example.com/search/city/Germany:Baden-Württemberg

From the console I try to get the pathname of the URL:

location.pathname which returns:

/search/city/Germany:Baden-Württemberg

I see that the ü character has been transformed (escaped) to ü sequence. I want to dysplay this character as is in the HTML document, therefore I tryed with unescapeing it:

unescape(location.pathname) but unfortunatelly what I get is not the string from the URL > '/search/city/Germany:Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg'

How can I get the URL character ü (from my URL example.com/search/city/Germany:Baden-Württemberg ) via Javascript ?

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

The solution pointed out by @Cid

Use decodeURI()

worked better in this case than unescape which seems not to be the preferred function for such translations.

From developer.mozilla.org

Usually, decodeURI or decodeURIComponent are preferred over unescape.

Again, all the credits of this answer go to @Cid for his comments on the original questions.