using javascript inline expression in a Chinese character set

I have a problem when using javascript inline expression in GBK ( a Chinese character set)encoding environment. thymeleaf version is 3.0.7，jackson verson is 2.5.0

<script th:inline="javascript">
var user = [[${sessCtx.username}]];
</script>

sessCtx.username contain some chinese characters . like “张三”. but what I got is : var user = "\u82CF\u5DDE"; I can transform in front end, but this is not a normal way. What can I do to get a right string in back end.

[danielfernandez]

When you say “we need Chinese in JavaScript”, could you please help me understand why you need it? I mean, why having escaped output does not work for you? Of course I understand any character encoding can be used in an HTML document, but generally escaping operations are performed for security reasons and in order to avoid very common display issues. However, again, if there is a reason why your JavaScript literals cannot be escaped in your code, could you please explain this reason so that I can better understand the scenario?

Anyway, you can obtain unescaped output like this (using [(...)]):

<script th:inline="javascript">
var user = '[(${sessCtx.username})]';
</script>

But please note that you need to take care of the quotes for yourself ('...') and also of manually escaping any single quotes (') that might appear inside your literal in order to not break the literal.

[mangodai]

i knew the code is work. but it doesn’t friendly to developer.you cann’t see the strings of meaning. anyway, think you 👍