special characters

[ggalan]

i am using javascript to read from XML to automatically populate a email subject and body. i have a special character in the xml - ö
<![CDATA[Björn Borg]]> (the special character gets converted here)
but the body of the email keeps coming out like this

Björn Borg
but if i copy/paste this ö into outlook its fine

using outlook as my email client
any suggestions on how to fix this?

[djr33]

You'll need to match character encodings. You could try a few and see if you get it right or you could research what Outlook uses-- probably email in general.

Copying and pasting is irrelevant because that intermediate step doesn't use an encoding-- when pasting, the encoding of the document is automatically applied to whatever contents you have on the clipboard.

[ggalan]

You'll need to match character encodings.

how do i do this?


OH, like unicode?

[ggalan]

it seems like javascript picks up the special character code

var1=var1.replace(/ö/g,"ö");

can i do something like this? then what would i replace "ö" with?

[ggalan]

Unicode!!