Reading In Utf-8 File (javascript Xmlhttprequest) Gives Bad European Characters

can anyone help? I have small procedure to read in an UTF-8 file with javascript using XMLHttpRequest.. this file has european characters like miércoles sábado etc.. Notice the a

Solution 1:

Probably your file is not in UTF-8 then try this from javascript:

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", path, false);
request.overrideMimeType('text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1');

Solution 2:

I'm having the same issue and I fixed in this way.

If you serve the js file containing the spanish days as UTF-8 and the if is NOT saved as UTF-8 it WONT work.

Save the file in your IDE as UTF-8 (ie. eclipse default for js files will be cp1252) and also serve it as UTF-8 char encoding.

If your app is java, do a filter with this code:

response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

have a good one

Solution 3:

EDIT: Seems that this answer, although accepted, is suboptimal, so for anyone coming here with a similar problem, check out Ricardo's answer

I think you have to use a different way to print the characters, for example, see the code at the end of this discussion:

<script>functiongetUnicode(num) {
    num = num.toString(16);
    if (num.length < 3) {
      for ( var i = num.length; i < 4; i++) {
        num = '0' + num;
      }
    }
    return ( "&#" + num + ";" );
  }

  for ( var i = 0; i < 65355; i++) {
    document.write(getUnicode(i));
  }
</script>

Solution 4:

I also faced the same issue,I have solved in this way,

While In Get request, we are sending data through url So i decoded the url and get requested parameter through string operations

Consider if you are sending url like this, var ur1="getSubjectList.jsp"; ur1 +="?subjectlist=" +str+"&examId="+examId;

xmlHttp.open("GET", ur1, true); xmlHttp.send(null);

In getSubjectList.jsp, Use this-- String decodedParams= URLDecoder.decode(request.getQueryString(),"utf-8" );

String params[]=decodedParams.split("&");

String subjectlist[]=params[0].split("=");
     String examId[] = params[1].split("=");
     String center = subjectlist[1];
    String exam = examId[1];

In this way,You can get the requested values