Enable UTF-8 encoding for JavaScript

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I don t know how should I titled this question but hope my friends will understand the problem and will help me     I want to show log message in arabic language using JavaScript alert   function  for which I code   alert                         which means  alert  Enter opening price      but when i save the  js file Dreamweaver says    and if I run the script browser says    this page contains    lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset utf-8    gt    and i am using a lot of text in arabic which works fine   now how can I use alert for different language

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Just like any other text file   js files have specific encodings they are saved in  This message means you are saving the  js file with a non-UTF8 encoding  probably ASCII   and so your non-ASCII characters never even make it to the disk   That is  the problem is not at the level of HTML or  lt meta charset gt  or Content-Type headers  but instead a very basic issue of how your text file is saved to disk   To fix this  you ll need to change the encoding that Dreamweaver saves files in  It looks like this page outlines how to do so  choose UTF8 without saving a Byte Order Mark  BOM   This Super User answer  to a somewhat-related question  even includes screenshots

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The encoding for the page is not set correctly  Either add a header   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset utf-8    gt    or use set the appropriate http header   Content-Type text html  charset UTF-8   Firefox also allows you to change the encoding in View -  Character encoding   If that s ok  I think javascript should handle UTF8 just fine

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Try to put in the head section of your html the following    lt meta charset  utf-8  gt    I think this need to be the fist in head section  More information about charset  Meta Charset

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I too had this issue  I would copy the whole piece of code and put in Notepad  before pasting in Notepad  make sure you save the file type as ALL files and save the doc as utf-8 format  then you can paste your code and run  It should work         obiviously means unreadable characters

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For others  I just had a similar problem and had to copy all code from my file  put it to simple notepad  save it with utf-8 coding and then replace my original file   The problem at my side was caused by using PSpad editor

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I think you just need to make    lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html charset UTF-8  gt    Before calling your  js files or code

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thanks friends  after trying all and not getting desired result i think to use a hidden div with that arabic message and with jQuery fading affects solved the problem  Script I wrote is   js file      enterOpeningPrice   fadeIn        enterOpeningPrice   fadeOut 10000      html file   lt div id  enterOpeningPrice  gt       lt p gt                   lt  p gt   lt  div gt    Thanks to all

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RobW is right on the first comment  You have to save the file in your IDE with encoding UTF-8  I moved my alert from  js file to my  html file and this solved the issue cause Visual Studio saves  html with UTF-8 encoding

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This is a quite old request to reply but I want to give a short answer for newcommers  I had the same problem while working on an eight-languaged site  The problem is IDE based  The solution is to use Komodo Edit as code-editor  I tried many editors until I found one which doesnt change charset-settings of my pages  Dreamweaver  or almost all of others  change all pages code-page charset settings whenever you change it for page  When you have changes in more than one page and have changed charset of any file then clicked  Save all   all open pages  including unchanged but assumed changed by editor because of charset  are silently re-assigned the new charset and all mismatching pages are broken down  I lost months on re-translating messages again and again until I discovered that Komodo Edit keeps settings separately for each file

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Same problem here  solved with this  In Eclipse  with  js file open and on focus   go to   File    Properties    Resource    Text file encoding  choose  Other   UTF-8  put correct characters code inside the code save your file and you are done

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just add your script like this    lt script src   js intlTelInput min js  charset  utf-8  gt  lt  script gt

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