Javascript Alert not displaying Chinese characters in I.E8

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Hi,

I am facing a problem with Javascript Alert Box.I am localizing the text to Chinese in the alert box,When I open that in Firefox,It is working fine, but when we open it in I.E8 the text is showing boxes(Format).Alert box is not displaying Chinese characters in I.E8.I tried using this code,But it was of no use(Code Below). help me in getting the Chinese language on the alert box.
Code I used

VB

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

        {
            var message = '<%=GetGlobalResourceObject("myResource", "Label1").ToString() %>';
            alert(message);
        }
    </script>

Posted 24-Oct-11 2:29am

praneeth arnepalli

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AswinKrishnan · Answer 1 · 2011-10-24T03:08:00

Solution 1

Did you try these ?

http://www.white-clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl6wen.htm[^]

http://www.jp41.com/internet-explorer/chinese/[^]

http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/lcd/browser/browsercck.htm[^]

Posted 24-Oct-11 3:08am

AswinKrishnan

praneeth arnepalli · Answer 2 · 2011-10-24T03:35:00

Solution 2

AswinKrishnan, Thanks for the reply , Every client browser need to install the fonts and it is quite impossible to do that.Is there any solution to solve it from code?

Posted 24-Oct-11 3:35am

praneeth arnepalli

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AswinKrishnan 25-Oct-11 3:22am

I understand your problem but if you change the Encoding of the IE, it should work.

Check this link

http://www.capitolacomputing.com/intl_js_charset.htm

the author is providing a solution for similar kind of scenario. hope it helps.