[Javascript] Accented Characters in Alert box
Andrew McCombe
andrew at euperia.com
Fri Jan 31 07:50:39 CST 2003
Yes - it does work!
>
>
> I don't think you can do this in alert boxes. There is a way of printing
> them directly using a nifty little-known trick if you are using
> Windows. As
> the keyboard only has 104 (or close) keys, you can access the full 256
> characters of a font by holding down the right alt key and entering the on
> the number pad the numerical code for the character you require:
>
> ie:
> ¼ is alt+(number pad) 0188
> ½ = 0189
> ¾ = 0190
> = 0149
> é = 0233
> © = 0169
> = 0153
>
> I've not tried these in an alert box.
>
> Andrew
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I would like to display accented characters 'é' within an Alert box
> > but both é and é endup showing Z^ or some other
> > garbage.
> >
> > How can I pass accented characters to an Alert box?
> >
> > thanks!
> > --
> > Thierry
> >
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