[jQuery] Re: Convert special characters

[Julien de Prabère]

I notice with IE6.0 : Microsoft.XMLHTTP don't take care at charset and
work only with utf-8 encoded responses,
while Msxml2.XMLHTTP seems, like XMLHttpRequest, respect the charset
if it is done ( "Content-Type: text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1" in PHP). It seems explain your difficulties with
jQuery.1.2.3 witch dispose (lines 2663) for ajax :

var xml = window.ActiveXObject ? new
ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") : new XMLHttpRequest();

while Peter Paul Kock (http://www.quirksmode.org/js/xmlhttp.html)
recommends the reverse order and other ActiveXObjects :

var XMLHttpFactories = [function () {return new XMLHttpRequest()},
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")},
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml3.XMLHTTP")},
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}];

Thanks