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window.getSelection does not work with japanese (EUC-JP) websites

I am getting a problem with greasemonkey script (jquery) where I cannot get text from japanese (EUC-JP) websites, instead getting weird symbols.

Here is Script and website http://www.geocities.jp/npp_euc_jp/ to test. I tried to search on google but no answers

Solution

  • The issue is not with window.getSelection(). The issue is with URL encoding. However, this can be fixed by running the string through encodeURI.

    So, in this code, you'd want to replace this line:

    var seltext = getSelectedText();

    ... with this:

    var seltext = encodeURI(getSelectedText());

    This will then make sure the values getting piped into the attr() are properly encoded before sent to Google.