[Javascript] Encoding Unicode characters in HTML

Judah Frangipane judah-fc at t8design.com
Thu Aug 18 16:04:43 CDT 2005


Thanks guys. :)

Jens Brueckmann wrote:

>>>What I don't know is how to encode a unicode character. I am trying to
>>>encode a bullet character. The keystroke is ALT+0149 as displayed here
>>>•. There are many more unicode characters that I would like to let my
>>>users use. How do I encode the characters so that the browser renders
>>>them correctly?
>>>
>>>var myTextField.value = "Me, myself & I.";
>>>      
>>>
>
>Any character can be escaped in scripts using the following sequence:
>
>  \uHEX
>
>where HEX is the hexadecimal character reference. 
>
>Thus, your bullet becomes:
>
>  \u00B7
>
>or the above example:
>
>  var myTextField.value = "Me, myself \u0026 I.";
>
>Cheers,
>
>jens
>
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