innerHTML changes my characters in my string

Question

When I try to change a paragraph using the innerHTML, it changes some characters. Look at the code:

texto.innerHTML = "Durante as últimas 2 semanas, com que freqüência você foi incomodado/a por qualquer um dos problemas abaixo?";

The output is this: Durante as �ltimas 2 semanas, com que freq��ncia voc� foi incomodado/a por qualquer um dos problemas abaixo?

insted of this: Durante as últimas 2 semanas, com que freqüência você foi incomodado/a por qualquer um dos problemas abaixo? novo

What are those question marks?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> — José Mauro
– José Mauro, Commented Jan 2, 2014 at 18:11

The Humble Rat · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02 13:10:06Z

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This is due to an encoding issue. Rather than using accented characters, you need to use the HTML special characters.

For example:

ü should be

&#252;

See a full list here

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

answered Jan 2, 2014 at 13:10

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Mykola Prymak · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02 13:10:56Z

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Looks like you have a different encoding in js files and browser output. Try to change the javascript file encoding to the UTF8 without the BOM.

answered Jan 2, 2014 at 13:10

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José Mauro Over a year ago

Yes. I think it could be this. But, how can I change the javascript file to the UTF8 without the Bom?

José Mauro Over a year ago

thanks. I've created a new javascript document, past the old code into it and it worked well. But I still want to know how to change the enconding to UTF8.

Mykola Prymak Over a year ago

Depend on used IDE/Text editor. In IDE try to check the new document settings. For Notepad++ (text editor) you can use special menu "Encoding->Conver to UTF8 without BOM".

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