I do not know if there is a function but the \unnn notation works definitely with alerts:
http://www.zid.tugraz.at/peter/javascript/unicode.html I am not sure but the #nnn notation might be unicode numbers so they might be the same numbers as in the \unnn notation Mario Ivankovits schrieb: > Hi! > > We merged our JSP project with JSF so we can slowly migrate to JSF at all. > This has been done by heavily using the verbatim tag - and even if its > butt ugly ;-) it works. > > Though, there is still one problem left. > Now that the whole page renderes through the HtmlResponseWriter all the > "umlauts" are converted to the &#nnn; form. > > Normally this is not a problem as the browser successfully handles it - > normally - but not when using the javascript function alert() to print > such a string. > > What I need now is a javascript function to unencode this string - is > there already something in myfaces of do one know a library for this. > I can create one myself, but I thought I'll ask before. > > > Thanks! > Mario > >
