jQuery AJAX Character Encoding Problem

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Published on 2009-02-16T14:30:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 23:01 UTC
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Hi everyone,

I'm currently coding a French website. There's a schedule page, where a link on the side can be used to load another day's schedule.

http://aquate.us/film/horaire.html

(At the moment, only the links for November 13th and November 14th work)

Here's the JS I'm using to do this:

	<script type="text/javascript">
	function load(y) {
		$.get(y,function(d) {
			$("#replace").html(d);
			mod();
		});
	}
	function mod() {
		$("#dates a").click(function() {
			y = $(this).attr("href");
			load(y);
			return false;
		});
	}
	mod();
	</script>

The actual AJAX works like a charm. My problem lies with the response to the request.

Because it is a French website, there are many accented letters. I'm using the ISO-8859-15 charset for that very reason. However, in the response to my AJAX request, the accents are becoming ?'s because the character encoding seems to be changed back to UTF-8.

How do I avoid this? I've already tried adding some PHP at the top of the requested documents to set the character set:

<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15'); ?>

But that doesn't seem to work either. Any thoughts?

Also, while any of you are looking here...why does the rightmost column seem to become smaller when a new page is loaded, causing the table to distort and each <li> within the <td> to wrap to the next line?

Cheers

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