var xmlhttp_sp = false;

try {
//If the Javascript version is greater than 5.
      xmlhttp_sp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");

    } catch (e) {
//If not, then use the older active x object.
try {

       xmlhttp_sp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

} catch (E) {
//Else we must be using a non-IE browser.
              xmlhttp_sp = false;
            }
}

if (!xmlhttp_sp && typeof XMLHttpRequest != 'undefined') {
          xmlhttp_sp = new XMLHttpRequest();

}

function makerequest_sp(serverPage, params, objID)
{  
    var myRandom=parseInt(Math.random()*99999999);
    
    params+='&'+myRandom;

    var url = serverPage;
    //var params = "lorem=ipsum&name=binny";
    xmlhttp_sp.open("POST", url, true);
    //Send the proper header information along with the request
    xmlhttp_sp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8");
    xmlhttp_sp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
    xmlhttp_sp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
    xmlhttp_sp.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when the state changes.
    if(xmlhttp_sp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp_sp.status == 200) {
        document.getElementById(objID).innerHTML = xmlhttp_sp.responseText;
        //alert(xmlhttp_sp.responseText);  
    }
    }
    xmlhttp_sp.send(params);    

    //xmlhttp_sp.send(null); 
}

//some comments
function makerequest_sp(serverPage, params, objID)

when you wanna call makerequest_sp it takes 3 params
1.serverPage like test.php
2.params the values of a form like name=nasir&id=34& …
3.objID is div id where you want to show xmlhttp_sp.responseText inside a div.

how you call this let me write a function how did I call

function  test_dari(formid)
{
 var formvalues = do_it(formid);
//this do_it  function will retrieve all form name with its value
  url='test.php';
 var params=formvalues+'action=getform&'
  makerequest_sp(url, params, 'mytest'); //here is ajax call function
}

this was very hard to debug since putting a string containing special characters simply hardcoded in the ajax view failed as well, which made me think it was not a database related issue, but it was because dreamweaver saved the file in western european encoding by default…

It also works in debugmode in IE7 and FF even though the utf8 header is not set by the requesthandler (when debug > 1).

So anyway, thanks!

Furthermore, good question. To be honest, I am in doubt about some stuff regarding UTF-8 and I haven’t really bothered with it that much.

Is it really required that:
- The UTF enconding is specified in a meta tag
- A UTF header is included along with the requested page (php header function)
- The file itself should also be stored in UTF-8 encoding…which is new to me even though it really makes sense. I’m using dreamweaver at this time, and at first glance it seems files are saved in western european encoding.

However, I’m uploading all of my files to a local testserver through FTP and I don’t know how that may affect encoding either, so is there a way to check in what what format the stored file is actually encoded on the testserver via a Linux console…or doesnt that make sense?

I found this in the renderAs method from the requesthandlercomponent:
return $this->respondAs(‘html’, array(‘charset’ => ‘UTF-8′));

seems like nowadays cake adds the utf header if you add the component in your controller. However, I did some testing, involving returning a list with a single item containing a foreign character (which i just hardcoded in the ajax list view, i did not fetch anything from the database) and the problem still is occuring in both IE and Firefox. Any ideas?

Thank you, for your nice great work!

I really appreciate this!!

Greetings, Rainer

i really appreciate this!!

Greetings, Rainer