it can’t show those characters, I think the problem is somewhere here: document.getElementByIddocument.getElementById

I am just confused with it. anybody has the solution for using ajax and php to read utf-8 characters from mysql.

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i have also a calendar script which is included into a utf-8 page. Here i have the same troubles that special characters are shown wrong. I tried to put a .htaccess into the folder but without success. What else could i do to solve this problem?
And when i receive data from my database and place it on the page, it’s working fine, but when i open a popup and add all the parameters via the url, I also get wrong characters… Any idea, what I could do?

thanks
Florian

I just came back to say the same thing. It appears that the HTTP headers have to state a utf-8 charset (which Apache installations do by default I’m lead to believe).

Thanks for the response,

Take care,
Brian

If you already have a load of code written, then a quick solution may be to add a .htaccess file to the directory your JavaScript, with the following in it (not tested):

  AddCharset utf-8 .js

Then, you can write the utf-8 text directly into the file (I think )

Are you sure that external JavaScript files have to be sent as ASCII (I realise the ECMA pdf document you linked to says so)?

I’m currently trying to “internationalise” a calendar script and have had no problems loading external JavaScript files containing ‘raw’ accented characters e.g.

The external script can contain the following (notice the raw “û” character):

var somerawstring= “Août”;

and the variable somerawstring can be used as-is (i.e. without resorting to the UTF8 encoding) e.g.

someDivReference.appendChild(document.createTextNode(somerawstring));

Perhaps I’m wrong (I hope not as I’ll have to change a ton of code)…

Regards,
Brian

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