UTF-8 and Javascript

javascript utf-8 character-encoding innerhtml
halna frédéric picture halna frédéric · Jul 22, 2011 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

I use Javascript to get data in a HTML pages define with a charset UTF8

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

my javascript method is load with a charset UTF8

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

but i have a encode problem, when i get data with "innerHTML"

ex: salari�s

is there something I missed ?

Answer

user669677 picture user669677 · Jul 22, 2011

The encoding of the files must be set to UTF8.

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