Inspired by xperroni I wrote a decoder. Thank you for the pointer.
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
char from_hex(char ch) {
return isdigit(ch) ? ch - '0' : tolower(ch) - 'a' + 10;
}
string url_decode(string text) {
char h;
ostringstream escaped;
escaped.fill('0');
for (auto i = text.begin(), n = text.end(); i != n; ++i) {
string::value_type c = (*i);
if (c == '%') {
if (i[1] && i[2]) {
h = from_hex(i[1]) << 4 | from_hex(i[2]);
escaped << h;
i += 2;
}
} else if (c == '+') {
escaped << ' ';
} else {
escaped << c;
}
}
return escaped.str();
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
string msg = "J%C3%B8rn!";
cout << msg << endl;
string decodemsg = url_decode(msg);
cout << decodemsg << endl;
return 0;
}
edit: Removed unneeded cctype and iomainip includes.