XMLHTTP special characters

[Murray Foxcroft Z.A.]

I've tried numberous options to get XMLHTTP to work properly with special
characters but alas, to no avail. I use the following code and it fails to
load the xml
in the responseXML object although the ResponseText is populated but with a
square where the special character is.

If I replace the special character é with E or A or any normal alpha
character,
it works like a charm. Any help, please, I've tried everything I can think
of !

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Client Side
-----------------
// Open up a xmlhttp object for posting (sending) the xml to update the
database
xmlhttp.Open("POST", http://testbed21/pages/fund/ValueGet.asp", false);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("charset", "utf-8");
xmlhttp.send( '<anything>a</anything>' );

alert(xmlhttp.responseXML.xml);

-----------------
Server Side
-----------------
<%@language=VBScript%>
<%
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.CharSet = "UTF-8"
Response.Write "<specialchar> é </specialchar>"
%>

[Fredrik]

Seeing that you got no respons. I have no knowledge about this XMLHTTP, but
the problem could be that you do not actually send the data encoded as
utf-8. It might be in Ansi or whatever string/file encoding you use. And
then it will not be able to use characters high than 127 in the ASCII code.

The solution is to esnure that your stream/file/string or whatever it is you
are sending the XML code as actually has utf-8 encoding. The best way for a
file is to store it in a text editor that has encodings as an option. In a
stream you have to add the code jey for utf-8 first to the stream. If its a
string I have no idea what to do since the strings encoding might be fixed.

Cheers

Fredrik Svensson

"Murray Foxcroft Z.A." <foxman@xsinet.co.za> escribió en el mensaje
news:3cc90aa7@10.1.10.29...
> I've tried numberous options to get XMLHTTP to work properly with special
> characters but alas, to no avail. I use the following code and it fails to
> load the xml
> in the responseXML object although the ResponseText is populated but with
a
> square where the special character is.
>
> If I replace the special character é with E or A or any normal alpha
> character,
> it works like a charm. Any help, please, I've tried everything I can think
> of !
>
> -----------------
> Client Side
> -----------------
> // Open up a xmlhttp object for posting (sending) the xml to update the
> database
> xmlhttp.Open("POST", http://testbed21/pages/fund/ValueGet.asp", false);
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("charset", "utf-8");
> xmlhttp.send( '<anything>a</anything>' );
>
> alert(xmlhttp.responseXML.xml);
>
> -----------------
> Server Side
> -----------------
> <%@language=VBScript%>
> <%
> Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
> Response.CharSet = "UTF-8"
> Response.Write "<specialchar> é </specialchar>"
> %>
>
>
>
>
>

[hem969]

Hi,

I am also facing the same problem?
have you got any solution?

Thanks
Hem

[azlopez]

XmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
XmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=iso-8859-9");