Spanish accents in Javascript

[Enrique Medina]

Hi,

I know this is not a question directly related with MyFaces, but does anybody knows how to solve this problem?

I define my literal strings in a properties file, and then I have created a custom messages tag that renders the message as an alert of _javascript_. So when a JSF message is generated, it is rendered as an alert. My problem is with accents. For example, in the alert window the text appears like:

"La fórmula es correcta"

while it should be:

"La fórmula es correcta"

Is it a matter of escaping the text in _javascript_? Because I have tried the escape() function but with no success...