I had to make a call from Javascript to a SOAP web service (more on that later). The data I had to send to the web service was in a XML format that contained non ASCII characters (for example: é). I tried to use the standard escape() function, but that one couldn’t handle the special characters.
Thanks to ecmanaut I found a very simple solution: encodeURIComponent() (with decodeURIComponent() as its counterpart).
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