Subj : Re: document.write(unescape(UNICODE)) doesn't work
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : jz <ebsp@iname.com>
Date : Wed Nov 19 2003 10:08 pm

Hi,

I've updated to 1.5 and it works now ... shame on me ;-)

Thanks.
JZ
Johnny Stenback wrote:
> Up n' til a last week or so, Mozilla's DOM layer overrode the JS 
> engine's escape() and unescape() functions, and that caused problems, so 
> this was changed and now Mozilla should behave exactly as IE does wrt 
> escape() and unescape(). Could you test a nightly build from this week 
> and report back if there's still a problem?
> 
> jz wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm under Mozilla 1.4 and the following code fails for UNICODE string :
>> <script language="JavaScript" charset="Big5" type="text/JavaScript"><!--
>> var htmldump = '<p>SomeUnicodeSuchAs\uxxxxOr\uyyyyForChinese</p>';
>> function execute()
>> {
>>     if (typeof(self.parent.aframe) != "undefined")
>>     {
>>         self.parent.aframe.document.open("text/html");
>>         self.parent.aframe.document.writeln(unescape(htmldump));
>>         self.parent.aframe.document.write();
>>         self.parent.aframe.document.close();
>>     }
>> }
>> //--></script>
>>
>> Same problem for Big5 encoding such as :
>> var htmldump = 'SomeBigSuchAs<p>??????</p>';
>>
>> The same code works under Internet Explorer 5+.
>>
>> I've checked forums and bugzilla.mozilla.org but I can't find out if 
>> it's a known issue.
>>
>> Could you help ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>> JZ
>>
> 
>

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