On Feb 1, 8:50 pm, "SM" <servandomont...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Daz for your answer. Basically what your saying is to use PHP
> script instead of a txt file. Got it!
> I will try it.
>
> Thanks
> sm
>
> On Feb 1, 3:14 pm, "Daz" <cutenfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 1, 8:01 pm, "servandomont...@gmail.com"
>
> > <servandomont...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have a simple AJAX script that sends and retrieves a text file. The
> > > ajax function is called from index.html
>
> > > ...
> > > var obj = document.getElementById(objID);
>
> > > xmlHttp.open("GET", "testing.txt", true);
> > > xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function()
> > > {
> > > if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200)
> > > {
> > > obj.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText;
> > > }
> > > }
>
> > > xmlHttp.send(null);
> > > ...
>
> > > The script works OK. I can see the 'testing.txt' file just fine. The
> > > issue is that the file (testing.txt) contains spanish character like:
> > > í, á
>
> > > and i see this ? instead of those spanish characters.
>
> > > This is my syntax in my index.html:
> > > ...
> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> > > <html>
> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> > > <head>
> > > <title>Sample 2_1</title>
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> > > charset=iso-8859-1" />
> > > ...
>
> > > What's wrong?
>
> > > Is this a server issue? Coz' i'm hosting with Yahoo and i dont have
> > > access to change the configuration of the server, obviously.
>
> > > Please Help
> > > sm
>
> > The problem is that the server is not setting the header for the
> > returned data, so it's not processed correctly when it gets to the
> > client.
>
> > THis article should help you figure out how to solve the problem:http://www.taylanpince.com/blog/AJAX...racter-Support....
Not necessarily. I am just saying that you should use some kind of
script (be it ASP, PHP, Java, Perl, etc), to read the text file, and
set the header before sending it to the client.
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