Howdy, For my site I'm using ISO-8859-1 encoding. The whole site is based on it, so is the mysql database. Changing it to UTF-8 really isn't an option at this point.
The problem is that when using the XMLHttpRequest, the responseText always comes back as UTF-8. I set the encoding in Prototype.js to ISO-8859-1, but from what I could find this doesn't change anything for the XMLHttpRequest method. Inserting this output into the database, makes special characters unreadable, because everything on the site is based on ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. So, I've been looking for days to get a respons in the right encoding, without much success. At this point, I use utf8_decode() in php to decode all text variables before inserting them into the database. This solves the problem partly, but many characters still aren't decoded properly. Today I found this website: http://squio.nl/blog/2006/06/27/xmlhttprequest-and-character-encoding/ It talks about 'overrideMimeType' and how this should be able to let me output everything in ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. I've been looking through Prototype.js and trying to implement this, but so far without any luck. Does anyone have a solid solution for changing the encoding on the responsText from the XMLHttpRequest? Or does anyone know how to implement this overrideMimeType in Prototype? I'd really like to keep using Prototype, but without proper ISO-8859-1 encoding, it's going to be a problem... Thanks in advance for any hints you can give me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
