javascript unicode

[Jay Richards]

hello everyone...
i know a lot of very good javascript coders here and im in dire need of yuor help...
im building a web application using struts... im placing all of my messages in a properties file.
anyway, one of my messages is formatted this way.

message1.text=판매품목

in my jsp file i put this in the alert function as

..
alert("<bean:message key="message1.text"/>");
..

the this is it shows the text as is "판매품목" is diasplayed...
i did some i research and found out that it should be in the unicode format \uXXXX...
maybe someone could give me code to convert 판 strings to \u54032... basically removing "&#" in the front and ";" in the back...
thanks a lot...
chard

[Eric Pascarello]

wouldn't it be easier to do this on the server side and not on the client side. The client side is not reliable and can be turned off so your code will not work on the browser.
basically if you want to do it on the client side then you need to look into replace() method with regular expressions....
general idea is here:

<script>
  function ReplaceText(theStr){
    theStr = theStr.replace("&#", "\\u")
    theStr = theStr.replace(";","");
    return theStr;
  }
  alert(ReplaceText("&#1111;"))
</script>

Eric
[ March 02, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

[Jay Richards]

thx..
i did try doing that but alert just wont show up the correct korean character...
i have this code that display correctly in my browsers

<font class="i18n"> 종류명부작성 </font>
or
<font class="i18n"> &# 51333;&# 47448;&# 47749;&# 48512;&# 51089;&# 49457 </font> ( i just put a space after &# so you could see the idea)

how can i display this in javascript in the correct format... i.e. actually korean characters.
pls help me out anyone...

[Eric Pascarello]

did you try just manually typing in \51333\47448\47749 and seeing if that shows up?
Do you have the meta tag to show the correct characterset?

[Jay Richards]

i have the correct meta tags cause i can show the correct characters in the browser... what i need is to be able to show the same characters using javascript. the original string is in the &#xxxxx; format... i followed one of the advise to replace &# with \\u for unicode...