utf-8 madness

Posted Settembre 16, 2005
Filed under: ajax, javascript, php |

As I wrote, I’m working on a stupid ajax (intranet) site but I’ve a lot of problem with charset encoding.

I’ve to publish, for legacy problem, all the intranet site using old ISO-8859-1 encoding BUT using the js XMLHttpRequest the data I receive is always UTF-8.

Unlucky I cannot use php to re-parse the data and to trasform to a latin encoding, anyone has a good idea to resolve this? Can I force another encoding on XMLHttpRequest?

Ok, I’m too tired to see the obvious… To resolve the problem I had simply forced the encoding via the php header function in the file I call remotely:

header(”Content-Type: application/x-javascript; charset=ISO-8859-1″);
echo $output;

now the browser show the right ÎÑTËRÑÅTÌÔñ�L strings :)

ciuaz

6 comments so far

  1. Tassoman on Settembre 16, 2005

    php rulez :p

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  3. Brian Barbutti on Aprile 6, 2006

    You just saved my life… =)
    I was having the exact same problem and there was no way in hell I could get it to work properly, until I found your post and saw the obviousness of the solution!

    Thanks a lot!

  4. ozzo on Luglio 27, 2006

    cool!!!!
    simple solution ;)

  5. Mikołaj on Gennaio 26, 2007

    Thanks man – it works! I needed iso-8859-2 ;D I spent 2 hours trying to solve the problem using iconv, then JavasScript escape + unescape, and urlencode + urldecode. Ufff… But tell me what is the ‘application/x-javascript’ mime – what does it mean? Thanks!

  6. Jacky J on Marzo 12, 2007

    Nice. I was looking for this simple solution


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