Replace ÅÄÖ in a textarea!

Hola!

I need to replace ÅÄÖ in a textArea!

This works fine on both browsers at PC, but I don\'t get this to work at NS on Mac.

I get some texts from a DB where I already replaced the swedish chars \"ÅÄÖ\".

These texts is Stored in an array in the JS-code. I switch between these text through a select-box and applys into a textarea. But I can\'t get it right in the textarrea

I have try this:

function replaceChar(string,text,by)
{
// Replaces text with by in string
    var strLength = string.length, txtLength = text.length;
   
    if ((strLength == 0) || (txtLength == 0))
    {
        return string;
    }

    var i = string.indexOf(text);
    if ((!i) && (text != string.substring(0,txtLength)))
    {
        return string;
    }
   
    if (i == -1)
    {
        return string;
    }

    var newstr = string.substring(0,i) + by;

    if (i+txtLength < strLength)
    {
        newstr += replaceChar(string.substring(i+txtLength,strLength),text,by);
    }

    return newstr;
}

/*
function decodeSwedishChars(text)
{
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xax]\', \'å\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xaex]\', \'ä\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xox]\', \'ö\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xAx]\', \'Å\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xAEx]\', \'Ä\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xOx]\', \'Ö\');   
    return text;
}
*/

function decodeSwedishChars(text)
{
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xax]\', \'&aring\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xaex]\', \'&auml;\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xox]\', \'&oring;\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xAx]\', \'&Aring;\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xAEx]\', \'&Auml;\');
    text = replaceChar(text, \'[xOx]\', \'&Oring;\');   
    return text;
}

The \'[xAx]\',for eg, is my own ecoding for swedish charcters in the DB.

So before i apply the text into the textarea I call the decode-method

        <script language=\"javascript\">   
            var texts = new Array(1);
                var text0 = new Array(2);
                text0[0] = \"2001-05-21 16:38:18.11\";
                text0[1] = decodeSwedishChars(\"<b>V[xaex]lkommen</b>\");
                texts[0] = text0;


            function applyText()
            {
                var form = window.document.forms[\"text_form\"];
                //alert(\"applyText: \" + form.oldtext.selectedIndex);
                for(var i = 0; i < texts.length; i++)
                {
                    if(form.oldtext.options[ form.oldtext.selectedIndex ].value == texts[i][0])
                    {
                        form.text.value = texts[i][1];
                    }
                }
            }
               
        </script>

So if any one have an ide let me know!

Best regards!

Fredrik Andersson