How to detect if a string is encoded with escape() or encodeURIComponent()

Question

I have a web service that receives data from various clients. Some of them sends the data encoded using escape(), while the others instead use encodeURIComponent(). Is there

Answer 1

Thanks for @mika for great answer. Maybe just one improvement since unescape function is considered as deprecated:

declare function unescape(s: string): string;


decodeURItoString(str): string {

 var resp = str;

 try {
    resp = decodeURI(str);
 } catch (e) {
    console.log('ERROR: Can not decodeURI string!');

    if ( (unescape != null) && (unescape instanceof Function) ) {
        resp = unescape(str);
    }
 }

return resp;

}