How to encode String to UTF-8 directly in JavaScript?

Question

I must encode a String to UTF-8, in order that the German Umlaut to be correctly displayed.

I have the following JavaScript:

.append( "<a><div class='autocompleteName'>" + itemLabel + " (" + item.id + ")</div></a>")

I need to encode itemLabel variable to UTF-8.

This Java line of code I need to be able to execute in JavaScript:

itemLabel = new String(itemLabel.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "utf-8");

Does anyone know how?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I found this on http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_script_charset.asp

set your script tag as

<script src="myscripts.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

maybe it works

Answer 2

如何将此元标记放在html文件的开头。

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">