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?
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