javascript alert() unexpected bahavior

[danrah]

when i use this character:

& #1587; (i placed a space between ampersand and # intentionally to be posted  correctly here)

in a webpage, it shows the equivalent character(in this case &#1587😉
but when i use it like this:

alert("& #1587;")

it shows "& #1587;" and not س.
how can i make alert() to behave properly?

[JPnyc]

It is behaving properly. JS alerts do not parse HTML or it's entities. You would have to put the actual phrase.

[bradgrafelman]

Or, if you know the unicode #, you can use the \u0000 escape sequence, e.g.

alert("\u0633");

[JPnyc]

Yep, that'll work