French accents are not displaying correctly in javascript alert message

Question

Hi,

I am getting the value form the server is DE LA GAIETÉ.  I want to display the same in the page, but French accents are not displaying correctly in javascript alert message, it is displaying like DE LA GAIETÉ  (html code for É)  

I tried escape, unescape, encodeURI, decodeURI... but its not working. Can anyone please suggest the solution. 

Answer 1

Hi,

I am getting the value form the server is DE LA GAIETÉ.  I want to display the same in the page, but French accents are not displaying correctly in javascript alert message, it is displaying like DE LA GAIETÉ  (html code for É)  

I tried escape, unescape, encodeURI, decodeURI... but its not working. Can anyone please suggest the solution. 

If this is for a web page then you are in teh wrong forum.  Try the web developers forum.

In WSH this is set by the OS settings for your version of WIndows.  n aa web page it is set by the web page characterset.

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Answer 2

IE: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/threads

VS Express: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswebdeveloperexpresspt/threads

VS 2010: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vs2010ctpwebdev/threads

Thanks!

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Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)