showing &#xxxx characters in javascript alert

[nys_cyber01]

i have created a english/korean site using i am using struts properties file to do internationalization.

my messages are stored in the format &#xxxx
for example:
text.hello=퍫&#31231

in my html using
<bean:message key="text.hello"/> displays correctly in my browser.

what i need know is for javascript to be able to show &#xxxxx; , what conversion do i need or anyone has experience with this.

i tried replacing &# with \u and remove ; but to no avail.

alert(fixText('<bean:message key="text.hello"/>'));
will be
alert(fixText('퍫&#31231'));
and javascript alert output will be just \u54123\u31231 - should be the correct korean characters...


function fixText(theStr){
while(true){
if(theStr.indexOf("&#") >= 0){
theStr = theStr.replace("&#", "\\")
theStr = theStr.replace(";","");
}
else
break;
}
theStr = theStr.replace("<li>","");
theStr = theStr.replace("</li>","");
return theStr;
}

>>>>

is this possible with javascript? if so what do you guys suggest?
please help me out.

many thanks...

[nys_cyber01]

text.hello=퍫秿

has been converted to korean the real values (remove space) is:

text.hello=&# 54320; &# 91231; (dummy values only)

[glenngv]

You mean you want to output Korean characters in the alert box?
I think the OS should support Korean characters to be able to do that.

[nys_cyber01]

i think it can... let's assume it can... placing \uXXXXX directly sometimes generate the correct korean characters...

[Willy Duitt]

Try using the ascii equivelent of &

eg: &amp;amp;#91231

.....Willy

[nys_cyber01]

my values is originally in &#xxxx format... placing it in alert just shows the same &#xxxx value.

[nys_cyber01]

maybe have any idea of korean characters mapping? maybe i could just extract & map my &#xxxxx to an array of korean characters...

just an idea... dont really know much about javascript.

[glenngv]

HTML entities in <script> tag are not parsed the same way as in html document. Displaying language-specific characters in the alert box is, AFAIK, subjected to Input Locale setting of the OS because alert boxes are OS controls.

[liorean]

Hmm, you have to do a conversion.

HTML: &amp;#d; or &amp;#xh;
JavaScrip&#116;: '\uh' or String.fromCharCode(d)

[nys_cyber01]

i believe String.fromCharcode(d) might really work. now my problem is how do i parse a string of &#xxx;&#xxxx, extracting the values in between '&#' and ';'.

thx a lot...

[glenngv]

Have you tried this first if this displays characters correctly?

alert(String.fromCharCode(54320))

[nys_cyber01]

yup it worked. thanks a lot. what i need now is how to parse the strings to extract the decimal part of &#xxxx;&#xxxxx; and build a new string for display.

how do i extract decimal values in between '&#' and ';' in javascript ( i.e. str='&#xxxxx;&#xxxxx;')

please help me out on the parsing...

thanks a lot everyone...

[glenngv]

Are all characters in the string Korean characters (no Roman characters at all)?

i.e. no instance of this:
text.hello="&#xxxxx; some roman characters blah blah &#xxxxx;"

[glenngv]

Ok, assuming all Korean characters

Try:

function fixText(s){
  if (!s) return '';
  var arr = s.split('&#').join('').split(';');
  var s2='';
  for (var i=0;i<arr.length-1;i++){ //ignore last element, it's empty
    s2+=String.fromCharCode(arr[i]);
  }
  return s2;
}
alert(fixText('&[color=black]#[/color]54320;&[color=black]#[/color]91231;&[color=black]#[/color]54320;&[color=black]#[/color]54320;'));

[nys_cyber01]

it's working now. just a little modification i think. my text can be a combination of my(&#xxxxx;&#xxxxx . it still should be able to display the other characters.

thanks again. i can now see the light...