jQuery escaping special characters
jquery, special-characters
Solution
You should check your server's default encoding settings match the document encoding and/or specify the proper encoding on the document. Some examples here: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.en.php
Also you may/must HTML encode (at least some of) those special characters in order to display them correctly. You may escape them automatically using jQuery:
`$('<div />').text(stringtoescape).html();`
or manually following this conversion table http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.3
Problem
Following script works well without having special character. Unfortunately, I have full of special characters to replace. How can I replace the texts with special characters in jQuery? you can see my script has α, β, ∑ and more special characters. thank you guys for the help. HTML code ``` <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script> <input type="submit" name="replace" id="replace" value="Replace" /> <div class="my_div">Default1 content1</div> <div class="my_div">Default2 content2</div> ``` script ``` $('#replace').click(function() { $('.my_div').text(function( idx, oldHtml){ return oldHtml .replace("Default1", 'α') .replace("Default2", 'β') .replace("content1", '∑'); }); }); ```