Re: encoding problem

jef peeraer schreef:
> i never thought i would be bblocked by an encoding problem :-(
> My database is in LATIN1 , i have entries like this in a table called
> gemeenten
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> ---------------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------
>
> id | integer | serial....
> gemeente | text | not null
> postcode | smallint | not null
> provincies_id | integer |
>
> This data is copied from a dump from that table
>
> 9780 Quévy 7040 7
> 9781 Quévy-le-Grand 7040 7
> 9782 Quévy-le-Petit 7040 7
>
> So, the accents are there. But with my web page, which is set to
> ISO-8859-1, i don't get the accents.
> The web-pages are build with XUL, where i set the charset to ISO-8859-1,
> but communication with the server is through XMLHttpRequest.
> Do I have to specify the charset as well in the communication between
> server and client ? Or where else could it go wrong.
>
> jef peeraer
>
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thanks for the help. The problem was lying in the fact that use
json_encode procedure from PHP. This procedure requires that the string
to be encoded be in UTF-8 format. So basically, my database stays in
LATIN1 and i set client encoding to UTF-8, as well as all web pages.

jef peeraer