My webpage is encoded in HTML with the charset ISO-8859-2. All content on the page adheres to this charset and appears correctly. However, I am facing an issue when making an Ajax call to a PHP server. When I send the character á and receive the same value back, it displays as ĂĄ, indicating a conversion to UTF-8. This becomes problematic because I also need to store this value in an ORACLE DB where it is saved as ĂĄ.
Here is my PHP code (ajax.php):
<?php
$p1=$_POST["p1"];
echo "p1:$p1\n";
?>
The AJAX setup I have tried is:
$.ajax({
type:'POST',
url:'ajax.php',
contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=ISO-8859-2",
data:{p1:p1,
p2:p2,
}})
.always(function() { alert('complete'); });
}
Despite setting the contentType to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=ISO-8859-2", the ajax call still gets sent in UTF-8 character encoding, causing the issue highlighted below. While seeking solutions, please understand that changing the character encoding to UTF-8 is not an option due to specific requirements.
I'm puzzled as to why adding
contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=ISO-8859-2"