write umlaut with javascript

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I have this in my header

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

and this in my htaccess:

# UTF-8 encoding
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Use UTF-8 encoding for anything served text/plain or text/html
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

# Force UTF-8 for a number of file formats
AddCharset utf-8 .css .js .xml .json .rss .atom

My browser is google chrome. When i use a javascript variable as output in the html a 'ä' becomes 'Ã¤' ?

Check in your google chrome settings from top right, select tools-> encoding and see if it's set to utf-8 when viewing the page. — Esailija
– Esailija, Commented May 31, 2012 at 13:22

Oleg V. Volkov · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-31 13:20:22Z

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You should either set the correct charset in <script> tag that includes your file or encode all symbols outside of plain ASCII range as unicode entities - \xNNNN and thus make file charset-neutral. Some minifiers, like Google Closure Compiler, can do this for you.

answered May 31, 2012 at 13:20

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AdrianoCelentano Over a year ago

like this <script type="text/javascript"> ?

Oleg V. Volkov Over a year ago

<script src="file.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

AdrianoCelentano Over a year ago

has unfortunately no effect for me

Oleg V. Volkov Over a year ago

Of course you should write correct encoding of your file, not just copy/paste "utf-8" from this example. Some comments on other answers suggest that you actually have ISO-8859-1 instead.

AdrianoCelentano Over a year ago

i switched everything to ISO-8859-1, now a ä is this ÃƒÂ¤

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Amberlamps · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-31 13:19:27Z

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Do you also save the document as UTF-8? If you are using Notepad++, try to change the coding of the document, save and refresh site.

answered May 31, 2012 at 13:19

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AdrianoCelentano Over a year ago

i use aptana studio and in the preferences general/workspace/text file encoding UTF-8 is selected, i think that should be it shouldn't it ?

Esailija Over a year ago

@user1011185 "Ã¤" are the bytes (0xC3A4) of utf8 encoded "ä" in encodings like ISO-8859-1, please check your encoding in tools->encoding in chrome

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