problems with ajax accents on ie

[arty]

i have set up a xhr , all the accents on the page are showed ok on ff an safari

function _cms() {
cms.open("GET", 'cms.php', true);
cms.setRequestHeader('If-Modified-Since','Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT');
if (cms.overrideMimeType) {
cms.overrideMimeType('text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1')
         }
else{cms.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"); }
cms.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(cms.readyState == 1){loader();}
if(cms.readyState == 4 && cms.status == 200){
document.getElementById("body_").innerHTML = cms.responseText;

so i setup a if condition for the overrideMimeType method because ie dont recognize it and blocks the xhr then i set a else with a setRequestHeader thinking this one would handle the no showing accents on ie (french accents) but it still does not work on ie, any thoughts? regards.

[acoder]

Set the header in the PHP file.

[arty]

the called file has the php extension but it's a normal html file so i cant do that

[acoder]

Try using meta tags to set the content type. Have you tried to load the page directly without Ajax?

[arty]

if the page is loaded without ajax the accents are ok, i am calling this page with the AHAH method(response text) so i cannot include a metatag in the called file(only in the calling file wich is the file that calls all the files),it is strange as the overridemymetype method works for ff and safari but i cannot find a else statement to make it work for ie

[dmjpro]

Can you show me the error details?
And what 's exactly happening please tell me :)
I feared you didn't obtain XML HTTP Request for IE. Show me the code for obtaining XML HTTP Request.