Help: Accented characters
Can you help me please?
If accented characters are entered in a form what encoding is used to represent them in JavaScript and in the cgi which processes the form?
Does this vary depending on the character set chosen in
the browser? Does it vary platform to platform or browser to browser at all?
Is there is any way to force a particular encoding to be used in both JavaScript and in the posted data?
Thanks in advance.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 13:53 — 25th September 2000.
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Hi Melanie,
if by "accented" you mean grave, etc: I'm not sure (never having dealt with it and presuming the language meta tag would take care of it automatically). However, javascript does have two built-in encoding functions: escape() / unescape().
var encodedString = escape(fieldName.value);
var unencodedString = unescape(encodedString);
Hope this helps. If not, let me know
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
Vincent Puglia posted this at 18:42 — 25th September 2000.
They have: 634 posts
Joined: Dec 1999
Hi,
You might also want to see this thread:
http://freewarejava.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002565.html
while not directly related to your problem, it does talk about non-English characters.
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
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