What happens when you code your form with an accept-charset attribute, set to UTF-8? Does IE respect that?
<form action="blah" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8"> Walter On Aug 3, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Michael Peters wrote: > > I'm not a character encoding expert so if these are stupid questions > or you'd > post a link than waste time explaining it I'll understand... > > I have an application that currently uses ISO-8859-1. I believe we did > this to > allow users to copy paste text from a Word document that may contain > funny > characters and paste it into IE. This of course doesn't work that well > with > Prototype which uses encode/decodeURI which uses UTF-8 when you pass > params to > Ajax.Request as an object instead of building the query string > yourself. Some > character become all jumbled after submission. > > I can change the back-end application if needed. The only requirement > is to > accept normal text entry and copy-paste from Word into IE into forms > that use > Ajax.Request. Any ideas? > > -- > Michael Peters > Developer > Plus Three, LP > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
