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AJAX - characterset problem

arcmax

Hello,

Just started working with Ajax on new multilingal website.

We are ableto store the charcterset in its form (currently german)...within a utf8 charctgerset defined table. Itshows up corectly in when i view it using phpmyadmin.

It shows up correctly when I see the stored info on my webborwser using regualr pull down menus and function (html &
php)..

However in a particular area of the website we have used AJAX and the speacial charcters seemed to get converted to ascii codes.. now I knwo tis is due to javascript incompatibility with different charcter sets (we are have utf8 in the meta tag on top)...

What I needo t know is how can I over come this problem... ??? any ideas ??? Again not too surte if I should post it out here ...but if someone has acheived this multi lingual thingy with ajax please advise

Thanks
Apurva M

arcmax

Hello,

Just started working with Ajax on new multilingal website.

We are ableto store the charcterset in its form (currently german)...within a utf8 charctgerset defined table. Itshows up corectly in when i view it using phpmyadmin.

It shows up correctly when I see the stored info on my webborwser using regualr pull down menus and function (html &
php)..

Thanks
Apurva

sneakyimp

if php handles this information between your database and the html output, you may consider a function like htmlentities to convert special characters.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

EDIT: I have no idea if this will actually help.

bogu

arcmax wrote:
now I knwo tis is due to javascript incompatibility with different charcter sets

This is working for me..

<?php
	header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
?>
<script>
	str = "Textul &#259;sta este afi&#351;at...";
	document.write(str);
</script>

MarkR

There are a number of issues specifically with AJAX which can cause problems.

If you're serving XML back to the client, ensure that it is in the right encoding.

If you're serving JSON, make sure that you set the content-type appropriately.

Content-type: text/javascript; charset=utf8

Seems to work for me.

There is a bug in some versions of Opera it seems, that does not interpret XML documents' encoding correctly in XHR responses.

But I've used JSON responses successfully with utf8 text in Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera and even MSIE.

For entering data, ensure that you're submitting a request appropriately formed into the right encoding. I use form-encoded POSTs encoded with encodeURIComponent(), which creates a url-encoded string in UTF8 (Javascript's strings are always Unicode internally).

Mark