Alerting Special Characters using jQuery/JavaScript

Question

How do i display a string with Special Characters like € in a Javascript/jQuery alert?

eg: I want to display a message box with \"The Price is €10\"

But whe

Answer 1

The native alert method does not decode HTML encoded entities.

But browsers do while rendering HTML. One hack is to create a HTML element with the specific text as its innerHTML (so it does the character processing), then get back its text property and alerting it out.

function alertSpecial(msg) {
    msg = $('').html(msg).text();
    alert(msg);
}
alertSpecial('The Price is €10');

This will work for all &xxx characters that the browser can display, without needing to find out the character code for each special character you may want to use.