Convert text string to unicode characters in javascript

Question

Lets say I have a text string such as 'hey' and I have a unicode alphabet like Latin Extended-A from wikipedia . How can I map capital A to its similar A in the unicode one. I think I would need to split the english string and have it in the array but then how would it know which letter that is? Is there a library for this?

Answer 1

I believe the answer to this question is here: How do I convert special UTF-8 chars to their iso-8859-1 equivalent using javascript?

so essentially:

decodeURIComponent(escape(utfstring))