Dynamic Ajax Content Chars being replaced

[jscheuer1]

I wasn't going to say anything, in case it worked but - I didn't think it would. I figured that the £ character had already been stripped of its hex value by the process that created the variable 'page_request.responseText'. I also didn't say anything because I am not sure how to make the desired substitution before that process mangles the £ character. I'll have a look around to see if it might be possible though.

[jscheuer1]

OK, since the responseText appears to be an intrinsic property of the page_request object, there really isn't any room for intervention there. You could use £ on the page to begin with, or there may be a way to configure the server to pass this character in the page_request object without stripping its high bit. I think mwinter had posted something about either doing this or about its not being possible. I will see if I can find that post.

[AndyPiddock]

Thanks John,

Now using an alternative, but will keep comming back to see if there is a solution

[jscheuer1]

OK, I looked for a post with that information yesterday but couldn't come up with effective search terms. Just now I hit upon the correct combination and found this post:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=3644

In it, mwinter (our 'semiretired' grandmaster problem solver) explains two methods to ensure that the host serves the document with the desired character encoding. Unfortunately, one of them - the .htaccess file method - may only work on an Apache server.

This was in response to a slightly different question so, a third solution was also offered - the meta tag solution. This we have already determined will not work in this case.

So, I would recommend that you try one or the other of the other two solutions. Either of these will actually configure the server to use that encoding, at least for your site. This is different from meta tag encoding which simply tells the user agent (browser) to use the desired encoding.

Now, I am not certain this will be a solution but, I think it might be and I'm fairly certain that if it is not, that there is probably no solution other than the £ entity or a different content management scheme (this is no law that says you must use Ajax for this).

[petros]

I have problem with two characters:
ó,á
I have fixed one , but I cannot use the replace tag for two characters. Anybody can me help?

I have try this:
function loadpage(page_request, containerid){
if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1))
document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText.replace(/á/g, 'á');
}

but I need insert this too: (/ó/g, 'ó');

[jscheuer1]

Replace is not a tag, it is a method. Whatever you call it, you can use it here as many times as you need it:

document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText.replace(/á/g, 'á').replace(/ó/g, 'ó');

[petros]

I have tryed this , Its don't work. I become only one replaced letter, this will replace generally á á
the ó ó is replaced too to á

[jscheuer1]

Try it again, make sure to do it just as I have shown.

[petros]

The same.

You can see this here:
http://www.travel4lessholidays.com/d...Italy_1_0.html

go to weather, click on the Limassol On the bolded text the letter ó is replaced with á. This problem is only in linked text

[jscheuer1]

This is what is in the file (ajaxtabs.js):

document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText

on the server, no replacements attempted. And, from what I can tell from looking at the page, none are needed.