Loading Unicode Characters from XML and push into Form via AJAX

Question

How can I load Unicode Characters (specifically a trademark symbol) from XML and push it into a Form via AJAX?

When I push formelement.value += "\u2122" it works fine, but when I place "\u2122" into XML, load it via AJAX, and push it to the form element it does not work.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

It should work if you use UTF-8 to encode the XML document. Otherwise try to use a character reference like ™.

Answer 2

That's a javascript format; javascript understands it and converts it to the appropriate character, but the XML parser does not. Instead of '\u2122' use '™' in XML.