Re: Firefox 3 beta 5 - when sending XMLHTTPRequest, content-type request header is forced to ISO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8

On Apr 30, 12:41 pm, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > and the content on the server side is garbled
>
> Only if you decode it as UTF-8 without paying attention to what the data
> actually is, right?
>

Yes, thats right, I had assumed that all content is coming in as
UTF-8.

>
> I don't think you can change the encoding of an existing Document object.  You
> can create a document with an arbitrary encoding by using DOMParser on a string
> with the proper XML prolog, I would think.
>

Yes, I have implemented this using something similar to:
var domDocument = new DOMParser().parseFromString("<?xml version='1.0'
encoding='UTF-8'?><foobar/>","text/xml");
and everything works as desired, although I'm somewhat concerned about
the performance tradeoff between these two implementations.

A similar bug was raised under:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407213
May wish to mark as duplicate of 431701.

Thanks for your help.

-Peter