I am working on a web application, where I transfer data from the server to the browser in XML.
Since I’m danish, I quickly run into problems with the characters æøå.
I know that in html, I use the 'æøå' for æøå.
however, as soon as the chars pass through JavaScript, I get black boxes with '?' in them when using æøå, and 'æøå' is printed as is.
I’ve made sure to set it to utf-8, but that isn’t helping much.
Ideally, I want it to work with any special characters (naturally).
The example that isn’t working is included below:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' /> <title>Untitled Document</title> <script type='text/javascript' charset='utf-8'> alert('æøå'); alert('æøå'); </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> What am I doing wrong?
Ok, thanks to Grapefrukts answer, I got it working.
I actually needed it for data coming from an MySQL server. Since the saving of the files in UTF-8 encoding only solves the problem for static content, I figure I’d include the solution for strings from a MySQL server, pulled out using PHP:
utf8_encode($MyStringHere)
Just specifying UTF-8 in the header is not enough. I’d bet you haven’t saved your file as UTF-8. Any reasonably advanced text editor will have this option. Try that and I’m sure it’ll work!