Post special characters to Suitelet

Using nlapiRequestURL, we can POST special characters by directly converting it to its html equivalent.
 
Example:
var post_data = new Array();
post_data["email"] = '&#252noemail@noemail.com';

'&#252' will return ü.

These HTML codes can normally be found here:"http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm".

There is an easier way other than manually encoding the special characters HTML equivalent. We can use these Javascript Global Functions to automate the request.

1. encodeURI - This function encodes special characters, except: , / ? : @ & = + $ # (Use encodeURIComponent() to encode these characters).

Tip: Use the decodeURI() function to decode an encoded URI.

2. escape - The escape() function encodes a string.

This function encodes special characters, with the exception of: * @ - _ + . /

Tip: Use unescape() to decode strings.

3. encodeURIComponent()  - The encodeURIComponent() function encodes a URI component.

This function encodes special characters. In addition, it encodes the following characters: , / ? : @ & = + $ #

Tip: Use the decodeURIComponent() function to decode an encoded URI component.

Sample code snipet:

 function sendString(type) {
            var str = 'órocan';
            str = encodeURI(str);
            var postData = new Array();
            postData['specialstring'] = str;
 
            var response = nlapiRequestURL('https://forms.netsuite.com/app/site/hosting/scriptlet.nl?script=175&deploy=1&compid=TSTDRVOROCAN&h=8b0846af4561ee31c7de', postData, null, null);
}

 

Suitelet code accepting the POST request:

function acceptString(request, response) {
            var str = request.getParameter('specialstring');
            str = decodeURI(str);
            nlapiSubmitField('salesorder', '666', 'memo', str);
}