Hi everyone. I'm doing my best to learn about Ajax and development of 
web apps using this architecture. I recently read this:

"Ajax uses UTF-8. Normal forms are sent using the encoding of the parent 
page. Thus a SJIS encoded page will default to sending form content 
encoded in SJIS. Ajax submitted forms on the other hand will be sent as 
UTF-8. If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of 
choice for the server, this will require a solution such as the server 
recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character 
encoding."

The line that immediately jumped out at me was this one:

"If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of choice 
for the server, this will require a solution such as the server 
recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character 
encoding."

Does this mean that IIS or Apache have to be explicitly setup to handle 
UTF-8? If so, how? I've never had to deal with since I've not worked on 
international sites so this is new to me.

I know I can set the charset to UTF-8 for a specific page via the 
following line:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

as well as setting up CF pages to use UTF-8 as explained here:

http://mxblogspace.journurl.com/users/admin/?mode=article&entry=7288

but again, I'm concerned about my web server not being configured to 
handle that.

Also, what about SQL Server? Does that have to be configured in some 
special way if I'm receiving AJAX data in UTF-8?

Thanks,

Rey...

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