UTF-8 JavaScript files

I'm having a problem with a UTF-8 HTML page containing a
<script> tag that calls in a JavaScript file that is also
encoded in UTF-8.

The JavaScript program, among other things, contains a string
literal, which contains an umlaut, and dynamically puts the
string into an HTML tag. But the umlaut is not displayed
properly and displays as a little square box instead. What could
be the cause of this problem?

Am I right in assuming that a JavaScript file inserted by means
of the <script> tag is interpreted as being encoded in the same
character set as the HTML page itself? If so, then I have to
search for the error elsewhere.

I haven't gotten to any more thorough analysis yet. Thought I
should ask here first, just in case there are a few well-known
potential causes.

Hans-Georg
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