It seems as though he special characters are all recognized as the same thing on my system. Here is some sample code:
// Function that processes a string to put to lowercase and remove special characters
function NormalizeString(s){
var r=s.toLowerCase();
if(r.indexOf('é')!=0){
r=Left(r,r.indexOf('é')) + 'e' + Right(r,r.length-r.indexOf('é')-1)
}
return r;
}
This works and changes the é to an e. Now if I add to this program :
// Function that processes a string to put to lowercase and remove special characters
function NormalizeString(s){
var r=s.toLowerCase();
if(r.indexOf('é')!=0){
r=Left(r,r.indexOf('é')) + 'e' + Right(r,r.length-r.indexOf('é')-1)
}
if(r.indexOf('ô')!=0){
r=Left(r,r.indexOf('ô')) + 'o' + Right(r,r.length-r.indexOf('ô')-1)
}
return r;
}
This changes 'Contrôle' to 'ocontrele'. And then I rtied the following code:
function NormalizeString(s){
var r=s.toLowerCase();
if(r.indexOf('ô')!=0){
r=Left(r,r.indexOf('é')) + 'o' + Right(r,r.length-r.indexOf('ô')-1)
}
return r;
}
And it changes 'Contrôle' to 'controle'. I don't get it :(
I am not sure where this problem comes from so I will explain my setup as best I can. I have an HTML page that uses client side java script to query a db on a hard rive. The db is on access 2003 I am using ADO to connect and query. the page is always displayed using ie, but the same problem I describe here happens if i try to open it in Firefox. I am running windows xp with English Canadian settings. I have the line <meta charset="utf-8"> right after the <head> tag of my page.
Please ask if you think more info could elude the mystery.
[EDIT] Also, when I try to write "é" just with normal html, it ouput and small square. I set the font to Arial sans-serif...
