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Bash urlencode and urldecode
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urlencode() { | |
# urlencode <string> | |
old_lc_collate=$LC_COLLATE | |
LC_COLLATE=C | |
local length="${#1}" | |
for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do | |
local c="${1:$i:1}" | |
case $c in | |
[a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf '%s' "$c" ;; | |
*) printf '%%%02X' "'$c" ;; | |
esac | |
done | |
LC_COLLATE=$old_lc_collate | |
} | |
urldecode() { | |
# urldecode <string> | |
local url_encoded="${1//+/ }" | |
printf '%b' "${url_encoded//%/\\x}" | |
} |
@ThePredators works like a charm 👍
Hi,
Characters used in France are not taken into account: (é è à ù ê â û ...) if you work in fr_FR locale.
You need to convert your data source from Windows-1252 to UTF-8 before entering in the function ::
data_utf8=$(echo "$data_ISO" | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8)
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@ThePredators this breaks on unicode
see my updated answer