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challenge: unicode to unicode
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| /** | |
| * == Can it be done? == | |
| * | |
| * I want to get from keyIdentifier to actual character, eg from U+0023 | |
| * to \u0023 - which if dropped in a string is the # character: | |
| * http://jsconsole.com/?%22\u0023%22 | |
| * | |
| * The problem is the starting point, and I know I can do it using an | |
| * eval, but eval is evil, right? So how can I do it? | |
| * | |
| * Can you solve this? | |
| * - @rem | |
| */ | |
| var code = "U+0023"; | |
| // evil - but works :-( | |
| eval('"' + code.replace(/^U\+/, '\\u') + '"') | |
| // http://jsconsole.com/?eval('%22'%20+%20%22U+0023%22.replace(/^U\+/,%20'\\u')%20+%20'%22') |
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Solutions already rolled in:
http://twitter.com/timwhitlock/status/12633678691
http://twitter.com/beverloo/status/12633646752
String.fromCharCode(parseInt(code.substr(2), 16))
http://jsconsole.com/?var%20code%20=%20%22U+0029%22;%20String.fromCharCode(parseInt(code.substr(2),%2016))