[pmwiki-devel] Ajax, JSON, and character encoding

[DaveG]

On 5/18/2010 2:21 AM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2010 00:24:06, DaveG wrote :
>> Therein lies the problem. If I pass a UTF-8 encoded page back to the
>> browser, I now need to make sure I decode the UTF-8 if that data is
>> subsequently submitted back to the server. This seems to open a rats
>> nest of encoding issues.
>
> Just a short note. Some wikis are in iso8859-2, iso8859-9, iso8859-13, or
> already in utf-8 -- all officially supported by PmWiki -- you shouldn't
> convert from/to these encodings with utf8_encode().
Understood, and this is part of why I'm questioning my approach. It 
seems to me that sending something back via JSON opens a huge can of 
encoding issues. I kind of assumed I'd taken a wrong turn. I'll give XML 
a quick try and see if that is better.