HTML DOM problem

[puffpio]

I have an input textbox and I fill with umlauted characters
ööö

When I do a
document.getElementByID("myinputtextbox").value;
to send to a webservice

those ööö comes out as %F6%F6%F6
...

what encoding is that? How can I get my umlauted letters back?
When I fill the input text box with other language characters (japanese, korean) it comes back ok

ie:
???/??? turns into %uD55C%uAD6D%uC5B4/%uC870%uC120%uB9D0
which my webservice can understand

 

[puffpio]

my webservice that is consuming these strings is based in .net
and when I debug and add a watch on the string that comes in, the korean chars come in fine, but the german umlaut does not. they show up as square boxes or questions marks

I have a feeling if they were converted to %u00F6 then they would work....

 

[brikis98]

looks like URL encoding: link. is the value of that input textbox being filled with a URL?

 

[puffpio]

no, it's being filled w/ sentences from various languages
english works, as do asian languages
but umlauted german letters end up as unrecognized characters

I think it may have something to do w/ teh browser considering it %F6 instead of %u00F6 and .Net doesn't understand

 

[MrChad]

What is the encoding are you using in the HTML?

 

[puffpio]

utf-8

 

[puffpio]

but it looks like the encoding for the ö is coming out as Iso-8859-1?

 

[puffpio]

Got my solution

I took a look at the AJAX framework I was using, and parameters being encoded and sent over were wrapped in javascript's escape() function...which I found out doesn't handle unicode all that well. I swapped it with encodeURIComponent() and all is well