AJAX with ASCII above 128 and below 255

[hsriat]

In the Database, I save some characters like £, ¥, ¼, ½, ¾.

When I display them directly in my HTML, they are fine.

But when I'm using AJAX to bring this string from PHP and display it, its displaying unknown characters (� � � � �). Rest of the string is being displayed fine, the problem is only with these characters.

How can I solve this?

[gits]

hi ...

it seems to be an character encoding problem with the response. i think that the XMLHttpRequest always uses UTF-8 encoding and what is the encoding of your page?

kind regards

[hsriat]

hi ...

it seems to be an character encoding problem with the response. i think that the XMLHttpRequest always uses UTF-8 encoding and what is the encoding of your page?

kind regards

Its UTF-8, as far as page is concerned.
But I don't think that should effect characters below ASCII 255.


And is there anything to be amended in this line?

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

[gits]

hmmm ... may be you could encode them at serverside as html-entities (like this)? ...

[hsriat]

hmmm ... may be you could encode them at serverside as html-entities (like this)? ...

No, its not working... it's converting characters like © to ©

This is actually creating problem coz I'm doing an htmlescape filter before displaying the text.

I need to do something else... Any other solution? :(

[acoder]

And is there anything to be amended in this line?

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

Try:

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8");

[hsriat]

Try:

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8");

no, thats not working.

Actually, if I add meta tag to the HTML, for charset=utf-8, it doesn't work at all.

But if I give no meta tag for charset, it works fine with such characters when they are displayed directly without using AJAX.
With AJAX, they are giving problem in both cases.

So I think, for AJAX I need to change charset=ISO-8859-1.

[acoder]

So I think, for AJAX I need to change charset=ISO-8859-1.

That should do the trick then. Did it work?

[hsriat]

That should do the trick then. Did it work?

Tried both..

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1");
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset:ISO-8859-1");

But no one worked.

[hsriat]

Quite an old thread, but I figured out the solution today when was working on this again.

I was using escape(), but had to use encodeURIComponent() instead.

Thank you acoder for letting me know the difference between these two in some other thread.

[acoder]

Well, that's great. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks for posting the solution.