Re: Firefox 3 beta 5 - when sending XMLHTTPRequest, content-type request header is forced to ISO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8
Jean-Marc Desperrier <[email protected]> Tue, 06 May 2008 11:26:42 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: > I'm having problems with Firefox 3 beta 5 when sending UTF-8 > characters via an XMLHTTPRequest. > > I have read the following page: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XMLHttpRequest > which states: > Note: Versions of Firefox prior to version 3 always send the request > using UTF-8 encoding; Firefox 3 properly sends the document using the > encoding specified by data.xmlEncoding, or UTF-8 if no encoding is > specified. [...] bz has updated this page (maybe after reading this message) to correct it, it's data.inputEncoding that is used. This is also what the current w3c draft says : http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/