Jeffrey,
>I'm having some troubles with extended characters (copyright symbol, etc.)
>being submitted to the server as a part of a CMS I am writing.
>
>For example, the javascript "escape" command will convert the copyright
>symbol to %A9. However, the server receiving the ajax POST needs to see
>that as UTF-7 before it will correctly interpret it.
>
>Is there anyway to add the "charset=utf-7" header to the ajax call? And if
>not, is there a better way to handle this?
The Accept-Charset header should be controlled by the browser and webserver.
You may need to make sure your app/web server is responding to pages using
UTF-8.
You can set custom headers by using the beforeSend mapping:
$.get(
{
url: "someurl.htm",
beforeSend: function (xml){
xml.setRequestHeader("Accept-Charset",
"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7");
}
}
)
I'm not sure how well that will override the charset in various browsers
though, since that's a header automatically added by the browser.
-Dan
