Enable UTF-8 encoding for JavaScript

Question

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('أدخل سعر الافتتاح');

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

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

and i am using a lot of text in arabic which works fine.

now how can I use alert for different language?

Answer 1

just add your script like this:

<script src="/js/intlTelInput.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Answer 2

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 <meta charset> 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.

Answer 3

Try to put in the head section of your html the following:

<meta charset='utf-8'>

I think this need to be the fist in head section. More information about charset: Meta Charset