[jQuery] jQuery Ajax Request Encoding

[jigs]

Hi

I am trying to send Hindi अनुयायी characters to my PHP Script. I set
request header as ascii, I want that it should store
अनुयायी in database.

When I am using form and submit it normally, it stores value
अनुयाय&#2368 in database properly
for given word. But when I use jquery $.ajax method to post the data
it doesn't store it in above format.

When I display encoding of the text from $_REQUEST variable it shows
UTF-8 when I submit through $.ajax but it shows ASCII when i submit it
using normal submit.

Can you please let me know how it can submit data using $.ajax as
ASCII?