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Sander Versluys
Sander Versluys

Reputation: 74487

Euro sign or other entity in Javascript alert/messagebox

Does anybody know how i can show a euro or other html entity in javascript alert windows?

Upvotes: 35

Views: 50285

Answers (5)

Claude Petitpierre
Claude Petitpierre

Reputation: 11

You can use the characters €, £, $ or ¥, which are standard ASCII, and can be produced directly on the keyboard.

Upvotes: 0

T.Todua
T.Todua

Reputation: 56497

for example, U+1234 is used like this: alert('\u1234').

For full list, you can see All Entity list:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
2) http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
3) http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ (CONVERTER)

Upvotes: -1

AnthonyWJones
AnthonyWJones

Reputation: 189495

An alert box can show any characters that are in the codepage for the currently logged on session. So for example if the machine is using the 1252 codepage you can display the eurosign.

Its not clear what your trouble is, you javascript string should not have the characters encoded as entities anyway?

Edit:

If you specify UTF-8 in the HTML or as the Response.CharSet but you haven't actually saved the ASP file in UTF-8 format you will have problems with characters outside of ASCII.

ASP assumes static parts of an ASP file are in the required codepage already and sends it verbatim byte for byte, no encoding will happen.

Upvotes: 1

kkyy
kkyy

Reputation: 12460

alert('\u20AC');

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Upvotes: 65

David James
David James

Reputation: 525

<script>alert("\u20ac");</script>

(20AC being the Unicode character for the euro sign.)

Upvotes: 4

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