overrideMimeType alternative for IE

Question

This is a question that never has a proper answer, i have search the net many times and i couldnt find a solution.

xhr.open("GET", fullurl, true);
if(xhr.overrideMimeType) xhr.overrideMimeType("text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1");
xhr.send(null);

xhr.onreadystatechange  = function(){ 
if(xhr.readyState  == 4){
if(xhr.status  == 200) 
alert(xhr.responseText);

It works for firefox, chrome. My responseText will return char like Réunion, which will appear as weird symbols.

I tried many methods like encoding and decoding, setting header in response file which does not work. i'm out of ideas. Please help somebody.

**SOLUTION**

In your main file, make sure you set your content type and charset.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

In your AJAX-loaded page, make sure you have this at the top.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

Problem solved, your a happy man. this is no longer needed.

if(xhr.overrideMimeType) xhr.overrideMimeType("text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1");

I don't think this works any more...hope I am wrong! – Brian McGinity Dec 23 '14 at 23:45 — Brian McGinity, Dec 23 '14 at 23:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '10 at 17:34

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You don't need anything fancy like overrideMimeType. Just make sure the encodings of your main and AJAX-loaded page are correct (preferrably UTF-8 for both). Most likely, you have forgotten the meta tag declaring the encoding.

answered Oct 03 '10 at 17:34

phihag

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Use HTTP headers, they have high precedence then meta equivs, and don't restart parsing if the browser realizes it was using the wrong encoding. – Quentin Oct 03 '10 at 17:39
are you asking me to set at both my main and ajax-loaded page? if yes, after setting it, my main page also having same problem, and the ajax result is still the same. please advise – john Oct 03 '10 at 18:05
i'm sorry but that fixed the problem but my charset needed would be iso-8859-1. Thankyou very much – john Oct 03 '10 at 19:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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I can't change the encoding with the meta tag and access to the server. In IE I access the responseBody to create a responseText with the correct chars. Here is my answer :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22030309/3353928

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Feb 26 '14 at 02:33

George G

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overrideMimeType alternative for IE

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