Question

I can’t seem to be able to render special chracters in a simple input textfield properly.
For instance in the following

é

should be é but renders as the raw value

document.getElementById("inputKeyword").value ="Cherchez par mot clé"

Answer 1

That’s html encoding, it has no use in javascript.

document.getElementById("inputKeyword").value = "Cherchez par mot clé";

or

document.getElementById("inputKeyword").value = "Cherchez par mot cl\u00e9";