it's really hard to tell from pasted files! are they being served properly? I like to use perl get to get to the bottom of encoding problems.
is the file really 8859? or actually utf8 with a header that says 8859? did you look at the response text in firebug? does it look gut? On 3/21/07, Marc Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Jake, > > thanks for your quick response. > > Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ schrieb: > > when I see the accented A character it tells me that someone is > > sending unicode but expecting 8859-1! As I converted everything to > > unicode, I've never had this problem. > > I've tried different comnbinations: > - html as utf-8 and xml response as utf-8, AND- > - html as ISO 8859-1 and xml response as ISO 8859-1 > > Both resulted in the described 'ö%'. > > > > Is the html page being served as utf-8? > > Yes, as stated, I've tried different configurations. > > > Do you have a publically accessible version of the page? I'd look at > > the headers and the jQuery code. > > As this is not publically accessible, here are the headers, derived from > firebug: > > Response Headers: > Date Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:56:17 GMT > Server Apache/2.0.54 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.0.5-2ubuntu1.6 mod_perl/2.0.1 > Perl/v5.8.7 > X-Powered-By PHP/5.0.5-2ubuntu1.6 > Expires Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT > Cache-Control no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, > pre-check=0 > Pragma no-cache > Content-Length 7379 > Connection close > Content-Type text/xml > > Request Headers > Host <???> > User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.1.3) > Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 > Accept > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 > Accept-Language de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 > Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate > Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 > Keep-Alive 300 > Connection close > Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded > X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest > Referer <???> > Content-Length 75 > Cookie PHPSESSID=<???> > Pragma no-cache > Cache-Control no-cache > > HTML: > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > > > XML: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > > <valuelist anz="3"> > > <item>Schüchenschulzeweg</item> > > <item>Schaffnerstr.</item> > > <item>Schäckallee.</item> > > </valuelist> > > > > It would be very kind if you could look at this information. > > -- Marc > > > > > Having to clean it up yourself is a major pain! Just when you think > > you've got it somebody type ø! or Ø! > > > > On 3/21/07, Marc Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I searched the mailinglist-archives and the wiki but could not find a > >> solution to my problem: > >> > >> I send AJAX requests to an oracle server, which in turn should send > >> appropriate XML. E. g. I'm querying for streets starting with the string > >> 'sch'. The server answers with an ISO-8859-1 encoded XML, and the > >> umlauts in the response (e. g.'schönweg, schloßalle' etc) are correctly > >> represented within my UI. > >> > >> But when typing in an umlaut, not the umlaut gets sended to my > >> PHP-script, which talks with Oracle, but a representation of the umlaut > >> (perhaps because of: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ?) gets sended. > >> 'ö' gets transformed to 'ö%', etc. With this string representation a > >> query like this: > >> > >> SELECT streetname FROM street WHERE streetname LIKE 'schö%' > >> > >> does return no rows... yet there are rows starting with 'schö'... > >> > >> I could possibly transform the given value again, after transmission to > >> my script, but I do not know how. > >> > >> I tried to turn off the "processData" attribute using $.ajaxSetup(), > >> but then everything crashed. > >> > >> Maybe someone can point me the right direction, any help is highly > >> appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> -- Marc > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> jQuery mailing list > >> discuss@jquery.com > >> http://jquery.com/discuss/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > -- Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ - יעקב ʝǡǩȩ ᎫᎪᏦᎬ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
