External javascript writes in latin-1

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External javascript writes in latin-1

Hi dear stackers,

I'm a bit stuck, given my page includes an external Javascript which uses document.write. The problem is my page is UTF-8 encoded, and the contents written are encoded in latin-1, which causes some display problems.

Is there any way to handle this ?

-- Thanks in advance, Rolf

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T.J. Crowder 2010-10-11 12:33:21

I'm not sure that works everywhere; Chrome for example seems to pay attention only to an encoding declaration in a `<meta>` tag in the head, or (maybe) in the DOCTYPE.

Pointy 2010-10-11 12:39:05

@Pointy: The `<meta>` tag on the HTML document will control what the charset is for the document. Chrome *should* respect the `charset` of the external script resource. But as I say, I've never actually had to mix charsets like this, just quoting what the specs tell us. :-) The real world may well vary. (I'm actually itching to try it now, but I just don't have time today.)

T.J. Crowder 2010-10-11 12:50:20

Yes I'm not very sure on this either. I'd actually prefer that `document.write` didn't exist at all, for this and many other reasons.

Pointy 2010-10-11 12:58:13

@Pointy: Yeah. :-) Although again, by the time the `document.write` executes, it's dealing with a UTF-16 string. This `charset` stuff is all about how the script gets *read* -- the actual characters in the JavaScript file itself... But I'm with you on `document.write` regardless.

T.J. Crowder 2010-10-11 13:12:58

it works like a charm :)

Rolf 2010-10-11 13:39:15

but not with IE :(

Rolf 2010-10-11 13:51:58

@Rolf: Sounds like some progress, anyway. Re IE: You're being careful about the `Content-Type` header being returned with the script file? Your server isn't contradicting you?

T.J. Crowder 2010-10-11 14:09:33

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