[FX.php List] [off] jQuery character encoding issue - SOLVED!

[Bob Patin]

Here's what I did:

At the top of my PHP page (the page that jQuery loads into the DIV), I put this line:

$html = header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252'); 

and it works fine…

Hope this helps someone at some point…


Bob Patin
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On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> OK, here's one for you guys:
> 
> I have a site that uses static HTML pages to display reports that the client generates using a VB parser I wrote for him 12 years ago. 
> 
> The HTML is pretty ugly, spawned by MS Word that he has running on an ancient Mac; the encoding it uses is Windows-1252.
> 
> In their old site,which is still up until I finish this rewrite, I used ISO-8859-1; this was back in 2004 or 5 when I didn't know to use UTF-8.
> 
> At any rate…
> 
> I'm using jQuery, so there's only one page with a HEAD section, and I've tried changing its charset to both ISO-8859-1 and to Windows-1252, but in both cases the text in his included pages gets bad characters for all the single-quotes.
> 
> Basically the entire HTML for the page is like this (slightly abbreviated):
> 
> $html = '<div>some images</div><div>';
> 
> include_once('html/$content'); // $content is a link to a static HTML page that I can't edit and which is encoded with Windows-1252
> 
> $html .= '</div>';
> 
> echo $html;
> 
> I tried putting a HEAD section above all this, making it a self-contained HTML page, but it still renders wrong when I use it inside jQuery; when I load the page by itself it works fine.
> 
> You won't see it in Safari, but it's in Firefox; here are 2 links where you can see it:
> 
> http://v2.advantastar.com/v2_start.php?r=2000000
> 
> Select any year, then a make, and then 2 vehicles in the forms as they load. On the final page you'll see the report with odd symbols in place of all the single and double quotes.
> 
> Now you can try this, and you'll see a clean page:
> 
> http://v2.advantastar.com/v2_comp.php?g=2011%20Saab%209-5
> 
> That works fine, no problems with encoding.
> 
> Any ideas? Is there a way to send an encoding command in jQuery?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions LLC
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