Javascript to replace characters ä ü ö ß …

[Chris Ju]

Hi,

i’m using the following java script code to replace characters:

var chars = {'ß':'ss','&':'und','.':'','ö':'oe','ä':'ae','ü':'ue','é':'e','è':'e','Ö':'Oe','Ä':'Ae','Ü':'Ue','É':'E','È':'E'};
var nachname = (record.getFieldValue('fld-eef248f9679f47eb98598b22133da6ea').toString().replace(/[ß&.öÖäÄüÜéÉèÈ]/g, m => chars[m])).toString().replace(/\s/g, '%20');

Nothing is replaced with this code.

Adding for example UTF-16 code for character ‘ü’ -> ‘\\u00fc’ to the second variable string:

var chars = {'ß':'ss','&':'und','.':'','ö':'oe','ä':'ae','ü':'ue','é':'e','è':'e','Ö':'Oe','Ä':'Ae','Ü':'Ue','É':'E','È':'E'};
var nachname = (record.getFieldValue('fld-eef248f9679f47eb98598b22133da6ea').toString().replace(/[ß&.öÖäÄüÜéÉèÈ\\u00fc]/g, m => chars[m])).toString().replace(/\s/g, '%20');

leads for for example with the text “Stümper” to

‘Stundefinedmper’

Even if i add the UTF-16 code to the first variable, results to the same undefined issue.

Does anyone have an short idea to solve that?

Thanks
Chris

[Daniel Leu]

This works for me:

const nachname_id = 'fld-xxx';
const chars = {'ß':'ss','&':'und','.':'','ö':'oe','ä':'ae','ü':'ue','é':'e','è':'e','Ö':'Oe','Ä':'Ae','Ü':'Ue','É':'E','È':'E'};

let nachname = record.getFieldValue(nachname_id);
nachname = nachname.replace(/[\u00f6ß&.öÖäÄüÜéÉèÈ]/g, m => chars[m]).replace(/\s/g, '%20');

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Daniel Leu.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Daniel Leu.

Cheers, Daniel

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[Chris Ju]

Thanks a lot! I found out that also my code works. It was an issue with copying & pasting the “ü” from a pdf file. I only tested the code with this entry … It was great that you changed the character!

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