Does anyone have any experience with character encoding and JSON returns
to Ajax calls?
I've just spent the last week trying to work this out, and I think I've
either complexed myself into a box, or what I'm trying to do is just wrong.
1] I'm using Ajax to make a request to the server
2] Cookbook returns a JSON object
3] I use Javascript to do things with the JSON object
This all works great. I was ready to release an Ajax enabled BlogIt unto
the world. And then someone tested with accented characters...
JSON requires UTF-8 encoded strings. In particular PHPs json_encode
*requires* strings to be UTF-8. So, if a wiki page is encoded with
ISO88591 characters, and has accented characters, (รถ) for example, these
need to be converted to their UTF-8 equivalent.
Therein lies the problem. If I pass a UTF-8 encoded page back to the
browser, I now need to make sure I decode the UTF-8 if that data is
subsequently submitted back to the server. This seems to open a rats
nest of encoding issues.
About the only solution I can come up with is to abandon the use of
JSON, and simply pass back XML in my Ajax response. This is okay, but
means re-writing everything I already did.
So, am I fundamentally missing something here, or are there other
options I should explore?
~ ~ Dave
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