[OpenLayers-Users] [OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers.Request.POST an encoding

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Dipl. Inf. Carsten Eider wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> i am using OpenLayers.Request.POST to send some xml data to
> a servlet. This data includes the famous german special charactesr like
> "ÜÖÄßüöä".
> Using tomcat on windows nearly everything works fine,
> using it on linux it fails
> The special characters result in "Ã?öÃ1/4ÃÃÃÃ"
> I know it is a encoding issue, but i don't know how to solve it
> 
> Can i set the encoding on OpenLayers.Request.POST?

var request = OpenLayers.Request.POST({
     url: "http://host/path",
     data: "ÜÖÄßüöä",
     headers: {
         "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8"
     },
     callback: handler
});

or charset=ISO-8859-1 if that's what you're sending

See:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset
http://docs.openlayers.org/library/request.html

Tim

> 
> Any reactions are apreciated.
> 
> Tia Carsten
> 
> 
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