Question

I have the following problem:

<script type="text/javascript">
 alert("1. ČĆŽŠĐčćžšđ");
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="Tst.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
 var pScript = document.createElement("script");
 pScript.type = "text/javascript";
 pScript.src = "Tst.js";
 pScript.charset = "windows-1250";
 $("body").append(pScript);
</script>

(These are Croatian characters.)

Contents of Tst.js is:

alert("2. ČĆŽŠĐčćžšđ");

Output of this script in FireFox (and Safari, so I’ve concluded that this is not the problem with the browser, but my code):

1. ČĆŽŠĐčćžšđ
2. ČĆŽŠĐčćžšđ
2. �Ǝ���枚�

Charset on the main page that is calling this code is Windows-1250.

I don’t understand why when I call Tst.js statically (by <script src="Tst.js" type="text/javascript"></scipt>) the characters are shown normal, but when I dynamically include Tst.js the characters go bannanas…

And unfortunately I can’t port all my code to UTF-8.

Any advice?

Answer 1

2nd update: Specifying the encoding in the content-type header of the JavaScript file did the trick – for whatever reason!

Update: You are setting the character set after loading the script.
Try

<script type="text/javascript">
 var pScript = document.createElement("script");
 pScript.type = "text/javascript";
 pScript.charset = "windows-1250";
 pScript.src = "Tst.js";
 $("body").append(pScript);
</script>