Non ASCII characters in FormAPI Code

Again TS 5.5.2 on Windows :-)

Via FormAPI I am trying to prefill some DCT items with content that contains some special chars (Umlauts into .setValue() )... providing the actual character results in an error. Typing in the entities (anything like Ä or &0000252 Smiley Wink

doesnt parse into the character (just displays the entity code again). What am I missing? (Is there a special string parsing routine in FormAPI?)

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Bill Klish

Haven't tried this on TS 5.5.2, but on TS 6.1 SP1 it works fine. I had this working by defining some variables and form api in a java script file that was included in my datacapture.cfg. I simply used the setValue method with these variables. I was using double byte asian characters and it seemed to work fine. Would have to go back and check, but I think that is all I did.