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I have a html text. I had encoded it in php using urlencode function. I want to decode that text in the javascript. when i use unescape function in javascript it replaces all the special characters back but sapce is replaced by '+'. how can i do it correctly so that space is replaced as space itself???

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Try using rawurlencode instead - urlencode does some things differently for "historical" reasons.

See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php for more information.

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tht works for me – Jasim Jul 9 '09 at 18:19
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PHP rawUrlEncode() == JavaScript encodeURIComponent()

and vice versa

PHP rawUrlDecode() == JavaScript decodeURIComponent()
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Try this: 

return decodeURIComponent((str + '').replace(/\+/g, '%20'));

Source: http://phpjs.org/functions/urldecode:572

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