[Rails-spinoffs] character encoding in ajax submit

[Rahul Bhargava]

Hey all,   Anyone got some quick advice on international character submission via Prototype’s Form.Serialize?    The base scenario: I set the charset on my page to ISO-8859-1, which seems to be what everyone uses.  If I submit a regular form with a standard webpage, I get international characters (like an accented “e”, or and AE legature) encoded as 1-byte ascii code values.   The problem scenario: When I submit the same thing with Prototype over XMLHttpReq with the parameter set to a Form.Serialize of some form, I get that same character encoded in what looks like its 2-byte Unicode representation.   The real question: Basically it boils down to the built-in encodeUrlComponent returning 2-byte encodings, while the browser seems to do a 1-byte encoding.  My server isn’t handling the 2-byte encoding correctly.  It seems weird to me that the two methods would produce differing results.  Am I doing something wrong?  Thanks again for any tips! Rahul

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