Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I must be barking up the wrong tree. The .NET server still decoded the Request.Form collection UTF8 no matter what I set the charset to on the XML post. And '%A9' is decoded to an empty string on UTF8.
I guess I could write my own method to replace the javascript "escape" to make it .NET friendly, but that would kind of suck. JK -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan G. Switzer, II Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:32 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: UTF-7 Ajax form 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
