Hi, Weird, in the space of just a few days we've now had three separate threads on character encoding, more than we've had in several months. Here are the other two threads:
http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous/browse_thread/thread/06f7ab84ec0e7178 http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous/browse_thread/thread/2d721cacad30d9e7 Might be worth teaming up with the other people having similar problems... Sorry not to have an answer for you, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com On Oct 22, 12:02 am, d_idaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using prototype 1.6.0.2. > > My page is generated by a cgi-bin program (a dll) on a IIS server. > It is encoded in "Windows-1252" charset. > Users may both use Internet Explorer 6 or Mozilla Firefox browsers. > > The page uses the Ajax.Request object in order to send a request to > the dll : > > new Ajax.Request( "http://myUpfrontserver/cognos/cgi-bin/ > upfisapi.dll", { > method: 'post', > parameters: {xmlcmd: "<DescribeNewsBox><ID>123443435454534</ID></ > DescribeNewsBox>"}, > encoding: ''Windows-1252', > contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", > onSuccess: function(transport) { > /* > My treatment on transport.responseXML or transport.responseText > */ > } > }); > > The server returns an xml message supposed to be encoded in > "Windows-1252" charset. > > But it seems the transport response is interpreted as encoded in UTF-8 > charset... > Actually, some accented character and their related characters appear > with a ? > i.e; : aï" > becomes a?> (this is the U+FFFD character, which > appears in a dark square on Firefox, and as ? on IE6) > > If I directly use the XMLHttpRequest object, I do not have this kind > of problem on Firefox (the problem persists with IE6) : the > responseText content is well detected in Windows-1252 charset. > > Do you know if the Ajax objects enforces the response to be detected > as encoded in UTF-8? > Is there any way to change this? > > I tried to analyze the prototype script in order to find where, in the > Ajax class, the responseText could be encoded in UTF-8 but I could not > find it... Anyway, I found that as the load was not completed, my > responseText was correctly interpreted (accented characters appear > correctly), and it is only at the end of the load when the status is > complete, that the U+FFFD Unicode characters appear. > > Moreover, with IE6, I meet this problem by using both Ajax.Request or > XMLHttpRequest... > Is there a way to enforce encoding of the XMLHttpRequest response ? > > Thanks for your help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
