Some latin characteres are not rendered properly

[rlhr]

Hello,

I'm using jboss-seam-1.0.1.GA CVS build 20060917.

The problem I'm dealing with might not be due to Seam but to JSF. I'm not sure so I thought I'd ask.

In a properties file, I have all the french translation of the english properties.
Let say I have the following string in the english file:

SUMMER = summer

and in the french one:

SUMMER = été

The internationalization works fine, but when I try to create a javascript variable that will hold that value doing the following:

var test = "#{messages.SUMMER}";

This will render the following:

var test = "&# 233;t&# 233;"; // with no space between &# and 233.

Also if I create a remote method that gives me back that string, I get the same &# 233;t&# 233; instead of été.

When using a <h:outputText> tag inside a view tag, it works fine.

The xhtml file starts by

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

So it should be fine I thought.

Any clue about what's going on?

Thanks,

Richard

[pmuir]

You're using facelets? There is a difference (I can't remember what it is off the top of my head, browse the list archive) between what is rendered using #{bean.proprety} and <h:outputText value="#{bean.property}" /> (for which you have the optional escape attribute). How about using

<h:outputText value="var test = "#{messages.summer}";"/>

Or similar (escaping the ")

[rlhr]

No actually this is some javascript messages I set when the page is loaded.
So I'm not using facelets there.

Also when I get back data for display using seam remoting, I get the same type of issue (and is that case, this is pure javascript, no #{messages.summer} tag at all.

In the html part using facelets, everything works perfectly.