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portfolio/lib/html-decode.ts
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fix: Properly decode HTML entities in chat messages
- Fix ' not being decoded to apostrophe
- Decode HTML entities when loading messages from localStorage
- Improve server-side HTML entity decoding to handle all variations
- Replace hardcoded ' in static text with regular apostrophes
- Add support for more HTML entity variations (rsquo, lsquo, etc.)
2026-01-09 18:07:43 +01:00

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TypeScript

/**
* Decode HTML entities in strings
* Converts ' " & < > etc. to their actual characters
*/
export function decodeHtmlEntities(text: string): string {
if (!text || typeof text !== 'string') {
return text;
}
// Create a temporary element to decode HTML entities
const textarea = document.createElement('textarea');
textarea.innerHTML = text;
return textarea.value;
}
/**
* Server-side HTML entity decoding (for Node.js/Next.js API routes)
*/
export function decodeHtmlEntitiesServer(text: string): string {
if (!text || typeof text !== 'string') {
return text;
}
// Map of common HTML entities (including all variations of apostrophe)
const entityMap: Record<string, string> = {
'&apos;': "'",
'&quot;': '"',
'&amp;': '&',
'&lt;': '<',
'&gt;': '>',
'&#39;': "'",
'&#x27;': "'",
'&#x2F;': '/',
'&#x60;': '`',
'&#x3D;': '=',
'&rsquo;': "'",
'&lsquo;': "'",
'&rdquo;': '"',
'&ldquo;': '"',
};
// First replace known entities
let decoded = text;
for (const [entity, replacement] of Object.entries(entityMap)) {
decoded = decoded.replace(new RegExp(entity, 'gi'), replacement);
}
// Then handle numeric entities (&#39; &#x27; etc.)
decoded = decoded.replace(/&#(\d+);/g, (match, num) => {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(num, 10));
});
decoded = decoded.replace(/&#x([0-9a-f]+);/gi, (match, hex) => {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(hex, 16));
});
return decoded;
}