[Javascript] Re: French accents in window.status

Flavio Gomes flavio at economisa.com.br
Mon Jun 7 13:15:41 CDT 2004


I use ISO-8859-1 here also, and have got no problems with:
window.status = 'Flávio áéíóú';

Maybe is not it a problem with the font that you have choosen to be in 
your window.status?

---
Flavio Gomes
flavio at economisa.com.br


Alexandre Quessy wrote:

> Yes, I tried using the entities. It appears that the text in 
> window.status show the actual code and not the accents! Like this:
>
> :: :: :: :: Bonjour du Québec !
> :: :: :: :: Bonjour du Québec !
>
> instead of this :
>
> :: :: :: :: Bonjour du Québec !
>
> Does anybody knows what's wrong ? It is that way in Mozilla as in 
> Internet Explorer. You can see the whole code at 
> www.sourcelibre.com/dev/ce/js.msgdefil.php
>
> Thanx!
>
> A
>
>
> Le 7 juin 04, à 13:00, javascript-request at LaTech.edu a écrit :
>
>> Did you try using entities?
>>
>> Use "é" instead of "é", without the quotes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> H
>>
>> Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to write some text in window.status in french. I can't get the
>>> accents (é, à, ù, Ô, É, ï, etc...) to be right. Is there something I
>>> could do to fix this ? My file is iso-8859-1, is that enough ?
>>>
>>> Merci!
>>>



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