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How to optimize unicode formatting

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
December 17, 2024
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Augustin
Flight Specialist | Tier 4

Hi everyone,

I have created a bot that retrieves e-mails with the Microsoft Graph API. However, the result must be properly encoded using unicode. For example the letter “è” is U+00E8 and if I don’t correct it, the word “règlement” appears as “ru00e8glement“

I have used the javascript component, to run this function :

function decodeUnicode(str) {
    return str.replace(/\\u[\dA-F]{4}/gi, function(match) {
        return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(match.replace(/\\u/g, ''), 16));
    });
}

However, it is particularly slow.

If I run this script on a batch of 100 e-mails, it takes roughly two minutes. In my opinion, it is not an acceptable duration. Is there a way to optimize that ?

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Augustin
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Flight Specialist | Tier 4
Forum|Forum|11 months ago
December 17, 2024

Update : it is equally slow in vbscript, and does not work in python (why ? no idea, there is no logging/no information on why it fails)

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Augustin
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Flight Specialist | Tier 4
Forum|Forum|11 months ago
December 17, 2024

I ended up doing a String:replace for every character I found could appear (I have more or less 40 lines of String:replace commands) and it takes less than 10 seconds.

It is really awful for the javascript component to be that inefficient