v4.0.x JS special chars (spanish)

[edittio]

Hi everyone,

My team and I are translating this website into Spanish and we have done the corresponding changes so that it can work with utf8. Everything is going well so far with the exception of the special characters in Javascript. We have declared variables in "spanish.psp" and we can't get a format legible both in html and in alerts JS. For instance:

define ("LANG_CAUTION", "Atenci�n");
can be read properly in the JS alert but not in html, and

define("LANG_CAUTION", "Atención");
the other way round (it's ok in html, but wrong in JS).

How could we make it work in both ways?

Thanks

[Eric Barnes]

Hi,

You could always define a new term and then change the javascript to use it.

[edittio]

Thanks Eric. It's a good solution but when implementing it I've tryed with "categor�a categoría" to see the differences and the result shown by the alert is "categor?a categoría" ie, it doesn't show accents (?) or interpret the html. Any ideas with this regard?

I have also seen that the new version of the administration system in Spanish (4.1.1) doesn't show the special characters either. Shall I make some special modifications in order to rectify this?

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Have you tried declaring the charset within the javascript declaration itself?

Example:
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery/jquery.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/main.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I haven't tried this myself, but I did a "Google" search for the subject and it seems as though javascript character sets are separate from the HTML declaration. In other words even though the HTML and the database may be UTF-8 encoded, the javascript is not, which is why you get a different behavior in the display of these types of characters from only in the javascript.

Hope that helps.