External Javascript and Spanish Characters

dbldutch21 · Aug 12, 2007

If I have the following setup

HTML FILE

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] lang="es" xml:lang="es">
	<head>
		<title>Javascript Test</title>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<script type="text/javascript" src="default.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
		Test
	</body>
</html>

JAVASCRIPT FILE - default.js

Code:

alert('Esto no está trabajando');

The Spanish characters in the alert show up as boxes. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you.

BillyRayPreachersSon · Aug 12, 2007

Try escaping the "á" as "\u00e1":

Code:

alert('Esto no est\u00e1 trabajando');

Hope this helps,
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BillyRayPreachersSon · Aug 12, 2007

Also, ensure that "iso-8859-1" is the correct character set for those characters. If not, try "utf-8".

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dbldutch21 · Aug 12, 2007

Awesome, thanks. I went with the character set option.

<script type="text/javascript" src="default.js" charset="iso-8859-1"></script>

That worked perfect.

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External Javascript and Spanish Characters

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