I'm going to get my DB admin to convert the database to UTF-8 and be done with it.
On Apr 28, 11:02 am, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > Ohhh -- that makes quite a lot of sense if you think about it. > > serialize() uses encodeURIComponent() under the hood, and the spec > says that it will always encode the string as UTF-8, regardless of > source. I'm not sure what your options are if you're doing a form > submission, other than recognizing the content-type on the server and > using iconv or another conversion utility to make it match your > database. > > Walter > > On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Miguel Beltran R. wrote: > > > You use forms? > > I tried use iso-8859-1 and forms and I have much trouble. The > > function serialize fields always give back data using utf-8. > > > If not use forms, try adding option encoding > > > 2009/4/23 Diodeus <diod...@gmail.com> > > > I'm working on and English/French site. The French data is in the > > windows-1251 character set. > > > My main application uses: > > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > charset=windows-1252"/> > > > So I am also adding the appropriate HTTP response header in my AJAX > > response. If I go to the AJAX URL directly, the encoding comes out > > fine, but if I call it via Prototype the accented French characters > > come out as the <?> diamond in Firefox. > > > I've tried adding encoding:'windows-1252' in my request, but I'm still > > getting the same result. > > > Does Prototype need some other configuration to treat the response as > > something other than UTF-8? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---