Newbie seeking help, loop characters in textarea

[echoSwe]

Hi!

I'm a newbie at JavaScipt, who has always found what he needs on the net. I.e. nothing fancy :smoker:...
What I would really appreciate to get helped with is a textarea tag.
THe story goes that the unaware user comes lolling into my page and decides to send me an email. The problem is that both him and me are swedish, and use "special" signs such as å, ä and ö.

These signs need to be displayed in the message which is sent, but unfortunately the System.Web.Mail component of ASP .Net doesn't handle these "special" signs...

Now, here is where the JavaScript comes into action... If I could somehow get help to write a script which loops through each sign in the textarea trying to find a special character, changing it to &aouml; and so on.

What would this look like?

Best wishes
//Henke

[bfsog]

You split the string using a common delimeter (space) and you will be left with each letter/word, such as "hi i am bfsog" once I split it with a " ", result is:
[0] => hi
[1] => i
[2] => am
[3] => bfsog

So, now you would loop through the length of the array, and compare each element in the array.

Something like

<script type="text/javascript">

var i;
var fullstring = document.formName.userInfo.value;
var array = fullstring.split(" ");

for(i = 0; i < array.length(); i++)
    {
      if(array[i] == "character")
         {
             array[i] = "replacement character";
         }
    }

</script>