Converting unicode characters to ISO entities (ie é to é)

[acarruth]

Does anyone know of a library or function that takes as input some text, and converts all special characters (accented characters, umlauts, etc) into the ISO entities (the HTML characters that start with &amp?

Or, alternatively, how do I reference unicode characters in javascript? For instance, if i wanted to do:

if ( 'é' == unicode representaion of é )
{
}

i've read that it is \uXXXX, but that doesn't seem to work.. any ideas!?

Thanks,

Allan

 

[acarruth]

Figured out the syntax, thanks!