What I'm saying is that once a site becomes more complicated (e.g. if the data comes after page load, in an ajaxed popup, for example), that simple solution becomes harder to maintain (or to implement without wasting bandwidth). To be fair, if you don't work on complex web apps, you'll probably never run into this.

>> I've never seen any issues with encoding in js, so I'm not sure what you mean about french text, regexps...

Good for you. I hope you never see these types of bugs, they are nasty to troubleshoot.