Comments on: Solving European characters (Western charset) problem with Ajax and PHP

By: Attila

Attila — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:10:15 +0000

Thank you, i was wery disappointed, i thought i have to use UFT-8 instead of latin2 to make it work properly, i was searching a lot but didn’t found my fix for it, so i decided to make it with utf-8, used it wasn’t working also OMG! Finally i found this post, it helped me out, i had no idea that i have to put this header in the process php file.
Thank you!

Attila.

By: Reetu

Reetu — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:39:17 +0000

we are working on real estate project for Europe based client. your blog help me to solve the characters issue. cheers.

By: sachin

sachin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:59:34 +0000

I have used Windows-1256 and Windows-1252.Both are not working.
The character is ú and it is displaying as Ãºl….The charset is coming from AJAX (Classic ASP)

I have tried with ISO and UTF-8 as well.None of the Charset working ….
Any one is there to help me ?

By: Ctibor

Ctibor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:04:40 +0000

Thaaaaaaaank youuuuu.. my problem is solved!!! Yeah.. finally

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:14:44 +0000

Solving European characters (Western charset) problem with Ajax and PHP…

Today, I would like to tell you how to handle character set problem which occurs during the data fetched from PHP using Ajax mainly on the western characters(European charset).Lots of people asked me about this problem where these European charset is d…

By: jack

jack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:25:10 +0000

header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8″);
header(“Content-Type: application/x-javascript; charset=UTF-8″);

i used all this script can’t in textbox request ajax .

By: Faisal

Faisal — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:09:12 +0000

thanks man …. thankx ….. u hlep me alot

By: Merlin

Merlin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:44:42 +0000

great article !

By: Harshal

Harshal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:47:52 +0000

I had to code as u have shown in a previous example of triple drop down but i am facing the problem of not getting Content in readable format…As i am working in Norwegian language how can i solve this problem…Please help!!!!

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:41:51 +0000

Great it helps a thanks lot man… nice work..

By: vlado

vlado — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:55:58 +0000

if you wont to use UTF-8 you need to save file (php/html) with UTF-8 encoding too

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:30:32 +0000

Roshan, yesterday I was a same problem rendering a page in Firefox or IE. I decide put windows-1256 and voila!…work!.
Somebody can explain it?, please.

By: Roshan

Roshan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:40:20 +0000

@Endijs – Well, You’re absolutely right and eventhough I’ve thought about using UTF-8 encoding and it didn’t work at all…try it ..

header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n”);

but the using any of the following header did work well…
header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1256\n”);
or
ISO charset for European characters,
header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n”);

By: Endijs Lisovskis

Endijs Lisovskis — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:51:57 +0000

Why not to use UTF8 headers? If you use exact windows-yyyy, then for each locale (Baltic, etc. etc) you would need to specify exact yyyy and then to deal with encoding problems in Web site (if you are displaying different languages).

So – where is the point not to use UTF8?