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barteloma
barteloma

Reputation: 6865

Javascript plain text charecter encoding

I am working on a Javascript project that uses AngularJS. When I get data with http request, all characters are appearing well. For example, a downloaded string with ajax is "räksmörgås", when written to the console as plain text, is appearing with ugly charecters.

console.log("räksmörgås") results into this: r�ksm�rg�s

Is this a file type encoding problem? Or are JavaScript strings always UTF-16 causing this problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2420

Answers (1)

Endre Simo
Endre Simo

Reputation: 11551

I think the problem is that you are not using the correct charset. For Swedish try to change the character encoding to iso-8859-1 or windows-1252. I suppose that you are sending the server response without the correct headers and the browser interprets it as UTF-8 as the default charset.

So maybe changing the header charset as below will resolv the issue:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 // or
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Another solution would be to declare your script tag with charset, this way forcing Js to handle the characters to be interpreted with a specific encoding.

<script src="yourscritp.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

Upvotes: 1

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