Decode characters that are ampersanded

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So I have an encoded text coming from a webhook that contains encoded characters with ambersand and HTML :

- é 
- '
-  
- <br/>

And I need it to be decoded somehow, or at least readable!
There these functions:

  • stripHtml : which is nice, it removes all HTML tags such as the
  • decodeURL : It’s unfortunately not an URL and it doesn’t decode it
  • ascii : I don’t think it’s the function to use here, the characters are already ascii

Any ideas what I could try to do here?
I guess my last shot is to replace every characters I may encounter but it might be a bit complex!

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@Timothe_Viot :raised_hands:

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Hi. Maybe you must combine all functions, including write a regex.

Thanks, Helio!
Wemakefuture
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Hello, thank you for your answer! Unfortunately, I guess the regex will remove the characters. The idea is to actually translate them so

&eacute;

Should become

é

I’m not sure this is possible at the moment though.

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There is an idea to allow this feature:

Related content:

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I made an IML function inspired by the project he (for “HTML entities”) (github.com), but unfortunately the limit of 5000 (5K) characters didn’t allow saving the entire code just for decode (unescape HTML).

I was allowed just a part, not the entire code of 60K lines, like the example below:

function utilDecodeHtml(s) {
/*https://mths.be/he*/var regexDecode = /&(ccedil|Ccedil|nbsp|lg|gl|eg|ne|Gt|GT|ii);|&(Aacute|Agrave|Atilde|Ccedil|Eacute|Egrave|Oacute|Ograve|Oslash|Otilde|Uacute|Ugrave|aacute|agrave|atilde|ccedil|curren|divide|eacute|egrave|iacute|igrave|iquest|oacute|ograve|oslash|otilde|Acirc|Aring|Ecirc|Icirc|Ocirc|Ucirc|acirc|acute|cedil|ecirc|icirc|ucirc|QUOT|euml|nbsp|quot|GT|LT|gt|lt)(?!;)([=a-zA-Z0-9]?)|&#([0-9]+)(;?)|&#[xX]([a-fA-F0-9]+)(;?)|&([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/g;var decodeMap = {'aacute':'\xE1','Aacute':'\xC1','acirc':'\xE2','Acirc':'\xC2','acute':'\xB4','aelig':'\xE6','AElig':'\xC6','agrave':'\xE0','Agrave':'\xC0','amp':'&','AMP':'&','aring':'\xE5','Aring':'\xC5','atilde':'\xE3','Atilde':'\xC3','auml':'\xE4','Auml':'\xC4','brvbar':'\xA6','ccedil':'\xE7','Ccedil':'\xC7','cedil':'\xB8','cent':'\xA2','copy':'\xA9','COPY':'\xA9','curren':'\xA4','deg':'\xB0','divide':'\xF7','eacute':'\xE9','Eacute':'\xC9','ecirc':'\xEA','Ecirc':'\xCA','egrave':'\xE8','Egrave':'\xC8','eth':'\xF0','ETH':'\xD0','euml':'\xEB','Euml':'\xCB','frac12':'\xBD','frac14':'\xBC','frac34':'\xBE','gt':'>','GT':'>','iacute':'\xED','Iacute':'\xCD','icirc':'\xEE','Icirc':'\xCE','iexcl':'\xA1','igrave':'\xEC','Igrave':'\xCC','iquest':'\xBF','iuml':'\xEF','Iuml':'\xCF','laquo':'\xAB','lt':'<','LT':'<','macr':'\xAF','micro':'\xB5','middot':'\xB7','nbsp':'\xA0','not':'\xAC','ntilde':'\xF1','Ntilde':'\xD1','oacute':'\xF3','Oacute':'\xD3','ocirc':'\xF4','Ocirc':'\xD4','ograve':'\xF2','Ograve':'\xD2','ordf':'\xAA','ordm':'\xBA','oslash':'\xF8','Oslash':'\xD8','otilde':'\xF5','Otilde':'\xD5','ouml':'\xF6','Ouml':'\xD6','para':'\xB6','plusmn':'\xB1','pound':'\xA3','quot':'"','QUOT':'"','raquo':'\xBB','reg':'\xAE','REG':'\xAE','sect':'\xA7','shy':'\xAD','sup1':'\xB9','sup2':'\xB2','sup3':'\xB3','szlig':'\xDF','thorn':'\xFE','THORN':'\xDE','times':'\xD7','uacute':'\xFA','Uacute':'\xDA','ucirc':'\xFB','Ucirc':'\xDB','ugrave':'\xF9','Ugrave':'\xD9','uml':'\xA8','uuml':'\xFC','Uuml':'\xDC','yacute':'\xFD','Yacute':'\xDD','yen':'\xA5','yuml':'\xFF'};var decodeMapNumeric = {'0':'\uFFFD','128':'\u20AC','130':'\u201A','131':'\u0192','132':'\u201E','133':'\u2026','134':'\u2020','135':'\u2021','136':'\u02C6','137':'\u2030','138':'\u0160','139':'\u2039','140':'\u0152','142':'\u017D','145':'\u2018','146':'\u2019','147':'\u201C','148':'\u201D','149':'\u2022','150':'\u2013','151':'\u2014','152':'\u02DC','153':'\u2122','154':'\u0161','155':'\u203A','156':'\u0153','158':'\u017E','159':'\u0178'};var invalidReferenceCodePoints = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,64976,64977,64978,64979,64980,64981,64982,64983,64984,64985,64986,64987,64988,64989,64990,64991,64992,64993,64994,64995,64996,64997,64998,64999,65000,65001,65002,65003,65004,65005,65006,65007,65534,65535,131070,131071,196606,196607,262142,262143,327678,327679,393214,393215,458750,458751,524286,524287,589822,589823,655358,655359,720894,720895,786430,786431,851966,851967,917502,917503,983038,983039,1048574,1048575,1114110,1114111];var stringFromCharCode = String.fromCharCode;var object={};var hasOwnProperty=object.hasOwnProperty;var has=function(r,a){return hasOwnProperty.call(r,a)};var contains=function(n,r){for(var t=-1,a=n.length;++t<a;)if(n[t]==r)return!0;return!1};var merge=function(r,n){if(!r)return n;var e,a={};for(e in n)a[e]=has(r,e)?r[e]:n[e];return a};let codePointToSymbol=function(e,r){let o="";return e>=55296&&e<=57343||e>1114111?(r&&parseError("character reference outside the permissible Unicode range"),"�"):has(decodeMapNumeric,e)?(r&&parseError("disallowed character reference"),decodeMapNumeric[e]):(r&&contains(invalidReferenceCodePoints,e)&&parseError("disallowed character reference"),e>65535&&(e-=65536,o+=stringFromCharCode(e>>>10&1023|55296),e=56320|1023&e),o+=stringFromCharCode(e),o)};var hexEscape=function(e){return"&#x"+e.toString(16).toUpperCase()+";"};var decEscape=function(c){return"&#"+c+";"};var parseError=function(r){throw Error("Parse error: "+r)};var decode=function(e,r){var a=(r=merge(r,decode.options)).strict;return a&&regexInvalidEntity.test(e)&&parseError("malformed character reference"),e.replace(regexDecode,(function(e,t,o,c,n,d,s,i,m){var p,l,f,y,b,E;return t?(b=t,decodeMap[b]):o?(b=o,(E=c)&&r.isAttributeValue?(a&&"="==E&&parseError("`&` did not start a character reference"),e):(a&&parseError("named character reference was not terminated by a semicolon"),decodeMap[b]+(E||""))):n?(f=n,l=d,a&&!l&&parseError("character reference was not terminated by a semicolon"),p=parseInt(f,10),codePointToSymbol(p,a)):s?(y=s,l=i,a&&!l&&parseError("character reference was not terminated by a semicolon"),p=parseInt(y,16),codePointToSymbol(p,a)):(a&&parseError("named character reference was not terminated by a semicolon"),e)}))};decode.options = {'isAttributeValue':false,'strict':false};
return decode(s);
}
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Hi, any solution to this problem?