Hello Everybody, I'm experiencing some problems with the $.ajax
When sending simple post request, request Headers (logged with firebug) are always "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" tagged for content-type see : Request Headers User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 Accept */* Accept-Language fr Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive 300 Connection keep-alive Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest Content-Length 152 But, i'm always working with iso-8859-1 encoding, my page include headers with the good charset, php.ini is set to the good default charset. So, when i retrieve the $_POST, i've to utf8_decode() cause utf8 datas are retrieved and special chars as "é", "à" are not recognised I think I shouldn't have to do that... Here's the test.html file : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Test encoding</title> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.js"> </script> </head> <body> <form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1" action="test.php" name="search" method="post"> <input id="qry" name="qry" value="" type="text" /><input type="button" onclick="send();" value="ok" /> </form> <div id="answers"> </div> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> function send(){ $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "./test.php", contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=iso-8859-1", data: { qry: $('#qry')[0].value }, success: function(data){ $('#answers').empty().append(data); return; } }); } </script> </body> </html> And the test.php : <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"); var_dump($_POST); ?> Thanx for the help ! -- Romain Viovi 42 rue Pigalle 75009 Paris +33 6 63 16 90 15 +33 9 54 40 84 40 romain.vi...@gmail.com