AJAX and Multibyte Character Support: “Taylan Pince has a post on his blog that looks at an issue several don’t think about when developing pages/applications with Ajax – multibyte caharacter support. I love AJAX, and I realize that there are more than enough tutorials on the subject floating around the web these days (my favourite is still the one over at the Apple Developer Connection). But when I wanted to use a simple AJAX menu for a site I was developing in Turkish, I quickly realized that there are some issues about character encoding in dynamically loaded AJAX elements, and that there are no apparent solutions. He creates a solution in a few simple lines of code to make the script the Ajax connection calls use a properly formatted UTF-8 content type. The code is there to take advantage of, as well as a simple function-based usage method he suggests. “
