* seasproc...@gmail.com <seasproc...@gmail.com> [2009-06-19 06:30]: > The issue was that non-ascii chars were appearing as junk BUT > only when retrieved via ajax calls. Otherwise, they displayed > fine. The junk display was due to them being interpreted as > ISO-8859-1, but I could not figure out why the browser was > interpreting that way. All my data is handled as UTF-8. > > The problem was fixed by calling utf8::decode on the data prior > to sending back via ajax. BUT WHY?
Looks like your code is broken and assumes bytes throughout; as long as all your data is UTF-8 you won’t notice. Apparently the JSON serialiser is trying to produce UTF-8 output correctly by encoding the strings you pass it; since they’re already encoded, you get double-encoding gremlins. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/