Javascript string comparison fails when comparing unicode characters

Question

I want to compare two strings in JavaScript that are the same, and yet the equality operator == returns false. One string contains a special character (eg. the

Answer 1

I had this same problem.

Adding

to the HTML file fixed the issue.

In my case the templating engine was baking a json string into the HTML file. This string was in unicode.

While the template was also a unicode file, the JS engine was treating the string I wrote into the template as a latin-1 encoded string, until I added the meta tag.

I was comparing the typed in string to one of the JSON objects items (location.title == "Mühle")