Japanese Javascript Alerts

From: by way of Martin Duerst <spencer_li@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:47:46 +0900 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20020228004740.03ec7c98@localhost> To: www-international@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:16:58 GMT

If enconding is set to Japanese (SHIFT_JIS), then
javascript alerts that contain the yen symbol instead
appear with a dot.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about fixing
this?

Thanks,
     Spencer.

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