accent ajax encoding issue

Question

Source file has:

header(\'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso8859-1\');

Source ajax (jQuery) script is:

$(document).ready         


        

Answer 1

This is because you are displaying UTF-8 encoding of é (0xc3, 0xa9) as Latin-1. So the search_word was encoded as UTF-8 when it posted to PHP.

Try this,

$.ajaxSetup({
        scriptCharset: "iso-8859-1",
        cache: false
});

Answer 2

That is because the default return type of an AJAX call is UTF-8. Try

utf8_encode($output);

in your ajax snippet. Alternatively, you can change the encoding of the AJAX request as described here.