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reedycat/decodeHtmlspecialChars.js

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Created December 23, 2020 09:30
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Decode PHP's htmlspecialchars encoding with Javascript
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decodeHtmlspecialChars.js
return function(text) {
var map = {
'&': '&',
'&': "&",
'&lt;': '<',
'&gt;': '>',
'&quot;': '"',
'&#039;': "'",
'&#8217;': "’",
'&#8216;': "‘",
'&#8211;': "–",
'&#8212;': "—",
'&#8230;': "…",
'&#8221;': '”'
};
return text.replace(/\&[\w\d\#]{2,5}\;/g, function(m) { return map[m]; });
};
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