Javascript/jquery messes up special characters

[lulli240]

I’m trying to send a string to a php file but when the strings get there all special characters (I’m from Iceland and need characters like þ, æ, ö, ó…) looks like þ æ ö. Help would be appreciated.

The code:

javascript/jquery:

$(document).ready(function(){

//If user submits the form

$("#submitmsg").click(function(){

var clientmsg = $("#usermsg").val();

$.post("post.php", {text: clientmsg});

$("#usermsg").attr("value", "");

return false;

});

});

post.php:

require("_config.php");

$address = $_SERVER;

$message = $_POST;

$mem_id = $_COOKIE;

$ip = $address;

$result = mysql_query( "Insert Into chat (user_id, message, ip) Values('$mem_id', '$message', '$ip')",$conn )

or die("Something went wrong while inserting message into database !". mysql_error());

?>

[Mottie]

Hi Lulli240!

Make sure the page has the charset as the generated page. In HTML5, it’s a meta tag in the header (more info here):

“utf-8” is just one character set “ISO-8859-1” is the standard for western European character sets (I’m not sure if that includes characters for Iceland).

[lulli240]

I have the meta tags on both the pages. The javascript messes the string up but I managed to solve it like this.

$(document).ready(function(){

//If user submits the form

$("#submitmsg").click(function(){

var clientmsg = $("#usermsg").val();

var e_clientmsg = escape(clientmsg); //escape the string

$.post("post.php", {text: e_clientmsg});

$("#usermsg").attr("value", "");

return false;

});

});

require("_config.php");

$address = $_SERVER;

$err = array();

$message = urldecode($_POST); // Decode the string

$mem_id = $_COOKIE;

$ip = $address;

$result = mysql_query( "Insert Into chat (user_id, message, ip) Values('$mem_id', '$message', '$ip')",$conn )

or die("Something went wrong while inserting message into database !". mysql_error());

?>

And now all my Icelandic characters shows up fine.

Thanks for your answer though Mottie ;)

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