UTF-8 Characters in AJAX Response

[fender]

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Hi,
I've UTF-8 characters in the response string of XMLHttp request, below is how I see the response in the client browser(Firefox) :
1) Firebug - <name>Cardenas " © ®. </name>
2) Javascript alert - <name>Cardenas " � �. </name>

Question is why Javascript is failing to read the UTF-8 characters correctly? Thanks

[fender]

The problem was in the way we were writing the AJAX response on the server side, the code below fixed it :

PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(newOutputStreamWriter(response.getOutputStream(), "UTF8"), true);
response.setContentType("text/xml; charset=UTF-8");