How to display Unicode decimals?

Question

Here is my code, which works fine, but it displays only hexadecimals:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
      function myfun() {
        var a= document.getElementById('anils').value;
        document.getElementById('anils2').value = "\u0C39\u0C48";
      }
    </SCRIPT>
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
    <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="anil" id="anils" />
    <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="anil2" id="anils2" />
    <INPUT TYPE="button" id = "anils1" onclick="myfun()" />
  </BODY>
</HTML>

\u0C39\u0C48 is in hexadecimal but the equivalent decimal \u3129\u3144 is not displaying in my browser.

Not gonna work. Just use the hexadecimal one. (did you realise that 3129 and 3144 are also valid hexadecimal?) — R. Martinho Fernandes, Jun 12 '13 at 13:20
If you want to use HTML entities, why don't you just use them? — R. Martinho Fernandes, Jun 12 '13 at 13:30
html not detects html entities in text box thats why i choosen unicode — AnilHoney, Jun 12 '13 at 13:38
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/31666/discussion-between-anilhoney-and-r-martinho-fernandes) — AnilHoney, Jun 12 '13 at 13:39
by default html generates decimal entities for unicode that i entered i text box but how to make that one as hexadecimal ? problem is browser detects hexadecimal entities(unicode) but it generates decimal entities — AnilHoney, Jun 12 '13 at 13:48
Add **x** for hexadecimal entities. @ is decimal, @ is hexadecimal. — Viliam Búr, Jun 12 '13 at 14:16
From the comments, it is obvious that the real problem is very different from the question asked. — Jukka K. Korpela, Jun 12 '13 at 17:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '13 at 14:17

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\u0C39 is not an HTML entity. HTML entities are used in HTML context and look like &...;. Valid HTML entities for the U+0C39 character (హ) include హ (decimal) and హ (hexadecimal).

\u0C39 is a JavaScript Unicode escape sequence and has no relation to HTML. The format is exactly that, \u plus a four-digit hexadecimal number that represents the Unicode code-point. Period. Any other format you might try simply does not exist.

P.S. \u3129 represents U+3129 (ㄩ).

answered Jun 12 '13 at 14:17

Álvaro González

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హైదరాబాద్ go to this [link](http://www.online-toolz.com/tools/unicode-html-entities-convertor.php) and give above entities y got some unicode how to display that in text box(unicode) – AnilHoney Jun 12 '13 at 14:22
i have text in text box(హైదరాబాద్) i entered telugu language characters that went to server హైదరాబాద్ in this format now i want to save this database and i want to display this entities back to format that what i entered first(హైదరాబాద్) how to do that – AnilHoney Jun 12 '13 at 14:28
Just retrieve the values from the database and output them back into the HTML document (i.e. using `echo` for PHP) – rink.attendant.6 Jun 12 '13 at 14:38
@AnilHoney - There's absolutely no need to use HTML entities that way if your site is using UTF-8. [Are you using UTF-8 correctly?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) – Álvaro González Jun 12 '13 at 14:42
please can u show me directely that by using html and javascript like entere హైదరాబాద్ text in one text box and show it another text box – AnilHoney Jun 12 '13 at 14:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '13 at 09:31

From comments - this is no longer anything to do with the question as stated. Suggest update the question to match your actual problem.

i have text in text box(హైదరాబాద్) i entered telugu language characters that went to server హైదరాబాద్

It sounds like your page is served without a specified encoding. Consequently the browser guesses what encoding to use to display it, and that encoding is probably not UTF-8.

When the browser submits the form, it uses the encoding of the web page. If that encoding isn't UTF-8 and so can't include the Telugu characters, the browser panics and tries sending the characters encoded as HTML character references instead. This is not a recoverable encoding, because you can't tell whether the character references are supposed to represent Unicode characters, or the user just deliberately typed &#...;.

To fix, ensure you include a Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 HTTP header with the form's HTML page, or include the equivalent <meta charset> tag in the page HTML.

How to display Unicode decimals?

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