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Merha
Merha

Reputation: 119

How to set charset utf-8 for jquery i18n?

I tried to localize my web app with jquery.i18n but I have some problems with umlauts.

In my jsp page I set the following:

<meta charset="utf-8">

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

<label data-i18n="specification"> Specification / Ausprägung </label>

script.js

$(document).ready(
        function() {
            //onload
            $.i18n().load({
                'de' : '/js/i18n/de.json'
            }).done(
                    function() {
                        $.i18n().locale = 'de';

                        $('body').i18n();
                    });});

And the de.json:

{
    "@metadata": {
        "authors": [
            "xyz"
        ],
        "last-updated": "2018-06-06",
        "locale": "de"
    },
    "specification" : "Ausprägung"
}

but all I get is Auspr�gung. Beside the umlauts, jquery.i18n works fine. How can I make it use utf-8 encoding?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1384

Answers (1)

&#193;lvaro Gonz&#225;lez
&#193;lvaro Gonz&#225;lez

Reputation: 146660

UTF-8 should be the default for any library nowadays and jquery.i18n, while not bleeding edge, appears to be a serioius project. Being precise, the JavaScript interpreter will automatically parse source code encoded as UTF-8 and convert strings to its internal encoding. I bet the library works with any encoding out of the box as long as it's properly declared (e.g. by sending a correct Content-Type header).

The � character in Auspr�gung is a typical symptom of single-byte encoding misinterpreted as UTF-8. Your editor is probably configured to save files as ANSI (Windows-1252 or whatever) but the stack is configured to assume UTF-8.

Upvotes: 1

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