var body_message = "\xe9";

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"NickTheNameless" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>i am having such trouble with this, i don't know why.
>
> my document is encoded at iso-8859-1, and the below code does not work
> properly.
>
> var email="whatever@whereever.com"
> vaq subject="Javascript Aggravates Me"
> var body_message="&eacute;"
> var mailto='mailto:'+email+'?subject='+subject+'&body= '+body_message;
> win = window.open(mailto,'emailWindow');
>
> when it opens in a new mail window it display &eacute; not the accented e
> i
> want to be displayed.
>
> however, down in the body of my page if i put &eacute; it displays the
> accented e.
>
> what the hell am i doing wrong?
>