I can't be sure this will help, but does your server side script return the document with specifically with a utf8 charset header?
On Aug 16, 8:05 am, barophobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this email again as it seems that it may not have made > its way to the list the first time. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: barophobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:02:52 -0700 > Subject: jQuery and UTF8 > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > Hello, > > I've got some Japanese text in my MySQL database that shows up > correctly through phpMyAdmin as well as when it is loaded directly as > HTML. > > However, when I load it through .load() it only shows up as question marks. > > Is there an obvious solution? I couldn't find any good info on jQuery > and UTF8 when searching. > > Also, when I try to add Japanese through AJAX it is saved in correctly > in the db (as well as returned) as things like %uD0A4%uC544. It works > fine when I enter foreign languages through a regular form and no > AJAX. > > Thanks, > Chris.