Problems with special characters (åäö) in JavaScript

[Pichdude]

Hi,

I am having problem using special swedish charcters (åäö) in a javascript.

I have a link name stored in a database, e.g. "Överföringar". When I use it in a Javascript on my jsp-page it turns out like this: Överföringar.

I have tried using character referencs instead, but i does not help me:

If I have "Överföringar" in database it appears like "Överföringar" on jsp-page.

Any tips on how to solve this?

 

[BabyJeffy]

When you get it from the database - you are doing something with it to handle these swedish characters.

Maybe you are running it through a function that strips "illegal characters" or "makes the string html-safe". Either way... if you do "view-source" on the browser... and you see the word appearing as "Överföringar" then the problem is as I have described.

I doubt that Javascript is the cause if your problem here.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[tsuji]

Use replace for all of them systematically for display.
[tt]
var s="Överföringar"; //as you get from db
var t;
t=s.replace(/Ö/g,"Ö");
t=t.replace(/ö/g,"ö");
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This element, say, illustrates the effect.
[tt]
<a href="&#xD6;verf&#xF6;ringar">&#xD6;verf&#xF6;ringar</a>
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