[OpenLayers-Users] character encoding

[R. Ortner]

Thanks for your replay and i basically know what u mean but I have absolutely
no idea how such a proxy script looks like, how i put it into my Application
and how do i call it?

would be very grateful for explizit examples (couldnt find a proxy-script in
the link below)



Arnd Wippermann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you use OpenLayers.loadURL(url, '', this, setHTML); like in the ol
> example, then your request use Ajax. Therefor you need a proxy-script. In
> this script you can change the special char to html entities.
> 
> With asp I use this function:
>  
> Response.Write server.HTMLEncode(objXmlHttp.responseText)
> 
> http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/apps/olexamples/sphericalmercator/wms_getfeature.
> html
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen
> 
> Arnd Wippermann
> http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org] Im
> Auftrag von R. Ortner
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 12:15
> An: users at openlayers.org
> Betreff: [OpenLayers-Users] character encoding
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> I´ve still trouble with my special character encoding.
> 
> -The database is in Latin1 and in Win-1252 (both capable of special
> caracters like ö,ä,ü,²,...) -the OL.php file is defined in the head
> sectoin
> as Iso-8859-1 -the template.html specified in the mapfile is defined as
> Iso-8859-1
> 
> when I call the GetFeatureInfo request in the browser it is displayed
> correctly (also in qgis or gvsig), when i call it witin the OL application
> no special character is displayed(only ? as symbols) not even the special
> characters in "plain" text in the template file. (I have a table, in one
> row
> i wrote some text like "länge" in the second row is the GetInfoRequest
> from
> the database) Then it writes "l?nge" instead of "länge"
> 
> so i don´t think the database is responsible for that and not the template
> file specified in Iso-8859-1!
> 
> is there a way to tell the mapserver to send the characters in Iso-8859-1
> or
> something in OL to define?
>      Because either the mapserver send it wrong or it is displayed wrong
> by
> OL.
> 
> Or can I somehow send the encoding with the getFeatureInfo request?
> 
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