imranul hoque's blog

If you have ever tried to put pound sign (or any special character) in any input fields by Javascript, you know that it is not that straight forward.

If we write code like this,
document.getElementById('input_field_id').value = '£1000';
It’ll display some question mark(unrecognized character) instead of the pound sign.
So we need to put character’s unicode to display it properly. In this case, the code should look like this:
document.getElementById('input_field_id').value = '\u00A31000';
where \u00A3 is the character code of £

This was bugging me a lot, so I thought it does not bug any one else