asked on AJAX and HTML encoding problem
I have a problem with encoding with AJAX.
I am not using a framework, just standard javascript. Through AJAX I load a HTML file and display the responseText inside a div (innerHTML = req.responseText).
The problem is that it does not load a client-server request, but a regular HTML file, so the encoding goes crazy and things like á , é, í, etcetera are not displayed correctly. I would like to know if there is some way to indicate the XHMTLRequest object to load the response in a given encoding, or to give the HTML file that is loaded an specific header for the Ajax request to understand it correclty.
I am not using a framework, just standard javascript. Through AJAX I load a HTML file and display the responseText inside a div (innerHTML = req.responseText).
The problem is that it does not load a client-server request, but a regular HTML file, so the encoding goes crazy and things like á , é, í, etcetera are not displayed correctly. I would like to know if there is some way to indicate the XHMTLRequest object to load the response in a given encoding, or to give the HTML file that is loaded an specific header for the Ajax request to understand it correclty.
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LeGrandi
It should display using the character set of the page that is loading it. Is it the same as the page you are loading thru AJAX? These pages are the most complete description of using AJAX that I have found: http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/ajaxgetpost.shtml
ASKER
Actually it works that way in Chrome, but not in Firefox or IE. How should I indicate in the html page which is loaded the charset?
Use this line in the header, preferably as the first line below <header>.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
ASKER
It still doesn't work
Does the encoding on the original page and the AJAX page match?
ASKER
The ajax, indeed, is not a Full page with <html></html> and <body></body>, but an HTML fragment and now has a <head></head> with the meta content-type inside
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ASKER
Hi,
it definitely doesn't work, so I will html encode the conflictive characters which is far simpler.
Thanks
it definitely doesn't work, so I will html encode the conflictive characters which is far simpler.
Thanks
ASKER
Not total solution.