Characters changed by the webserver

I have this code in an .js file, if it is downloaded via ftp

texto=texto.replace(/á/g,"Waacu开发者_如何学编程te;");
texto=texto.replace(/é/g,"Weacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/í/g,"Wiacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/ó/g,"Woacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/ú/g,"Wuacute;");

but when the web browser downloads it with the webpage, that is what it gets.

texto=texto.replace(/á/g,"Waacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/é/g,"Weacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/í/g,"Wiacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/ó/g,"Woacute;");
texto=texto.replace(/ú/g,"Wuacute;"); 

I don't know what's wrong with the code. I hope some body can guide me. Thanks in advance.

ernesto

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You've a UTF-8 file that's being parsed as if it was some 8-bit fixed Latin format.

Ideally, send the correct headers from the server (just how to do that depends on server and/or server-side scripting language). As a back up add <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> though it's sucky to have it disagree with the server.

Alternatively, use unicode escapes in the javascript, and you become immune to all of this.

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Your file is encoded in UTF8, so the á character is encoded as 195 161.
The browser is interpreting the file as CP-1252, so those bytes are interpreted as two different characters

You need to add a Content-Type header to tell that browser that it's really UTF8:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

(Or configure your server to send that header)