How to avoid malformed URI sequence error?
- by Luci
I'm working with perl. I have data saved on database as  “
and I want to escape those characters to avoid having malformed URI sequence error on the client side. This error seems to happen on fire fox only. The fix I found while googling is not to use decodeURI , yet I need this for other characters to be displayed correctly.
Any help? uri_escape does not seem enough on the server side.
Thanks in advance.
Detalils:
In perl I'm doing the following:
print "<div style='display:none;' id='summary_".$note_count."_note'>".uri_escape($summary)."</div>";
and on the java script side I want to read from this div and place it on another place as this:
getObj('summary_div').innerHTML= unescape(decodeURI(note_obj.innerHTML));
where the note_obj is the hidden div that saved the summary on perl.
When I remove decodeURI the problem is solved, I don't get malformed URI sequence error on java script. Yet I need to use decodeURI for other characters.
This issue seems to be reproduced on firefox and IE7.
