Well, it turns out that it is not shown correctly. It should read:
alert("ü") and alert("ü")
On Dec 14, 9:35 pm, Jürgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it would be a simple matter of just using charset utf-8, then
> please explain why the other charsets exist in first place. I believe
> there got to be good reasons, why people use other charsets than
> utf-8.
>
> One thing I did not get to work with utf-8 is an alert message with an
> umlaut (ü) in it. I tried using alert("&uuml;") and alert
> ("&#252;") but no success. I hope that display correctly. Please
> have a look at the test pages, just in case.
> No issue at all when I use charset iso-8859-1.
>
> Test page with utf-8:http://www.einberg-volleyball.de/maps/test/utf-8.shtml
> Test page with
> iso-8859-1:http://www.einberg-volleyball.de/maps/test/iso-8859-1.shtml
>
> Maybe Google can find a solution and display the correct text
> depending on the charset that the page is using rather than depending
> on everyone using the "right" charset.
>
> On Dec 12, 6:05 pm, "Neil.Young" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You are right, this solves the issue.
>
> > Andy R schrieb:>>http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/maps/
>
> > > This example page does not specify any character set information.
>
> > > To avoid problems like this simply add one line in your html header
> > > section:
> > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> > You are right, this solves the problem.
> > Regards
>
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> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
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