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ritmanis
ritmanis

Reputation: 95

Javascript alert not displaying diacritics in a php contact form

Found this simple contact form on the internet. Everything is ok, but the alert can't seem to display some characters that are specific for my language like ā ē š ž ī ļ. Here is the code of the contact form:

if ($mail_status) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    alert('Jūsu ziņa ir saņemta!');
    window.location = '/';
</script>
<?php
}

Here is how the alert gets displayed.

I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 485

Answers (3)

icktoofay
icktoofay

Reputation: 129109

Use Unicode escapes where ASCII won't do:

alert("J\u016bsu zi\u0146a ir sa\u0146emta!");

It's fairly simple to encode more strings yourself, too, assuming you've got Python 3:

$ python3
>>> x = "Jūsu ziņa ir saņemta!"
>>> print(x.encode('ascii', error='backslashreplace').decode('ascii'))
J\u016bsu zi\u0146a ir sa\u0146emta!

Upvotes: 4

AMD
AMD

Reputation: 1268

Consider using HTML codes for specific character in specific language

for example Ā has the char html code &#257;

about all others you can find the code here.

Upvotes: 1

Musa
Musa

Reputation: 97717

Jūsu ziņa ir saņemta! in utf-8 is JÅ«su ziņa ir saņemta! in iso-8559-1, so the browser is interpreting your utf-8 text as iso-8559-1. Try adding <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in your head tag to fix this.

Upvotes: 1

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