Decodes a URL string into regular text.

Note This function is new with Release 6.

Syntax

@URLDecode( decodeType ; token )

Parameters

decodeType

Text. The type of encoding you want to use to translate the token. You can specify either a string argument or a MIME character set.

String arguments:

• "Domino" -- Decodes the token using the standard character set used by the Lotus Domino Web server. This keyword is equivalent to the "UTF-8" MIME character set.
• "Platform" -- Decodes the token using the current system's native character set.
MIME character set:

Decodes the hexadecimal digits that represent the code value into octets, then converts the specified character sets into LBMCS. The supported MIME character sets are:

• "UTF-8" -- UCS(Universal Character Set) Transformation Format 8. An ASCII-compatible multi-byte Unicode and UCS encoding.
• "ISO-8859-1" -- The ISO's (International Standards Organization) 8-bit, single-byte-coded graphic character set for European languages.
• "Shift_JIS" -- The character set for the Japanese language.

Text or text list. URL string(s) to be decoded.

String

Text or text list. Returns a decoded version of a URL string.

@URLEncode

Glossary