I don't know. Did you try setting the option in the Autocompleter?
var options = { encoding: 'window-1252' }
new Ajax.Autocompleter(id_of_text_field, id_of_div_to_populate, url,
options);
Also, in your CGI, set the header before you send any results:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1252');
And make sure that any text getting within your CGI is also aware of
the character set of your database.
Personally, I would probably fork out to iconv for this, make it UTF-8
on the server and serve it that way.
Walter
On Apr 23, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Diodeus wrote:
>
> Does that mean I'm screwed if the database text is windows-1252?
>
> On Apr 23, 2:48 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is your entire path to and from the database UTF-8? That's a huge
>> requirement of Prototype's Ajax implementation, so if you are sending
>> back data under the wrong Content-type/charset header, or your
>> database is transmogrifying the characters somewhere, or Perl is,
>> then
>> you've got your problem there. I've used the AAC with Greek
>> characters, French accents, I know it works if your entire path is
>> UTF-8. You can try adding the Ajax options detailed here[1], but I'm
>> not sure if it will entirely solve your problem.
>>
>> Walter
>>
>> 1.http://prototypejs.org/api/ajax/options
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Per wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>
>>> I am trying to add Ajax.autocompleter to an old Perl.cgi + Oracle
>>> application we use. I am looking up people from
>>> our people database, for some person fields, and an email cc list. I
>>> have everything working to my liking, except I have run into two
>>> problems:
>>
>>> Some of the names in our database, contain French accented
>>> characters
>>> like é and è, and these do not work, as
>>> é is translated to "%C3%A9" in the request sent to the server, and
>>> if
>>> é is sent from the server it is translated to character 0xe9. Is
>>> there
>>> any way to disable this translation?
> >
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