JavaScript validation issue with international characters

Question

We use the excellent validator plugin for jQuery here on Stack Overflow to do client-side validation of input before it is submitted to the server.

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Answer 1

This isn't really an answer but I don't have 50 rep yet to add a comment... It can definately be attributed to encoding issues.

Yea "ECMA shouldn't care about encoding..." blah blah, well if you're on firefox, go to View > Character Encoding > Western (ISO-8859-1) then try using the Name field.

It works fine for me after changing the encoding manually (granted the rest of the page doesn't like the encoding switch, :P)

(on IE8 you can go to Page > Encoding > Western European (Windows) to get the same effect)