RE: Netscape Javascript Problem

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

I had similar problem with cyrillics in JavaScript-generated HTML:
Netscape would not recognise encoding and display text in Latin-1. An
interesting part is that it did work in one of early 4.0? versions and
stopped working in all others I tried including v4.5.

Regards,

Viktor


Jonathan Shore wrote:
>> 
>> As it happens I'm looking into a similar problem now (I've investigated on
>> IE5 at the moment).  I've found that the browsers will not properly
>> recognize double-byte sequences if they are programmatically generated, but
>> will properly handle double-byte string literals which have not been
>> massaged.  So for example, supposing I have a target (say a layer), in
>> variable "L".  Doing:
>> 
>> 	L.innerHTML = "<double-byte-string>";
>> 
>> works.  Generating that string programatically, as in:
>> 
>> 	Dstring += "<double-byte-char-string>";
>> 	...
>> 	Dstring += "<double-byte-char-string>";
>> 	L.innerHTML = Dstring;
>> 
>> does not work.  Rather one gets a sequence of single byte symbols from the
>> latin-1 extended character set.  I'm trying to find a workaround - will let
>> you know if I come up with anything (assuming your problem is related).
>> 
>> It's my guess that the "decision" as to whether a given string represents a
>> double-byte sequence is made in two places:
>> 
>>    - while loading a URI (or post load)
>>    - while pre-parsing javascript
>> 
>> As far as I can tell there does not seem to be any logic (or it is broken)
>> during the execution phase.
>> 
>> JS
>> 
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Ulrike Schmidt [mailto:ulrike@example.com]
>> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:58 PM
>> > To: tlug@example.com
>> > Subject: Netscape Javascript Problem
>> >
>> >
>> > Thre is a problem with Simon's annotate script: the window does
>> > not properly
>> > display Japanese, there are only questionsmarks were the Japanese
>> > should be
>> > when the Character set is set to Japanese.
>> >
>> > >            print <<EOF
>> > >    <A HREF="javascript:" onMouseOver='
>> > >        mywin = window.open("","","width=200,height=200");
>> > >
>> > mywin.document.write("$cset<B>Word</B>:$kanji<P><B>Root</B>:$deinf
>> > lected<P><
>> > B>Reading</B>: $yomi<P><B>Part of Speech</B>: $pos");
>> > >        mywin.document.close();
>> > >    '
>> > >    onMouseOut='mywin.window.close(); return true;'>
>> > >$kanji</A>
>> > >EOF
>> >
>> > My current suspicion is that the document.write function does not write
>> > Japanese properly. Is this right, and is there a solution?
>> >
>> > Uli
>> >
>> >
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