[Seaside] [VAST] Character Encodings in JQAjax>>#serializeForm

[Lukas Renggli]

Hi Joachim,

Could this be related to
<http://code.google.com/p/seaside/issues/detail?id=585>? This issue
was recently fixed in Pharo and might not have been ported to VA yet.

Lukas

On Friday, September 17, 2010, Joachim Tuchel <lists at objektfabrik.de> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I have a problem with Seaside on VAST that I guess is pretty VAST-specific. It is related to Character-Encodings/Charsets and jQuery Callbacks. VAST is not (yet) a full utf-8 platform, so we use iso-8859-15 as charset for form data. All is fine with normal callbacks and stuff, we can move Euro-signs and Umlauts back and forth between server and browser without any problem.
>
> Unfortunately, when it comes to JQAjax>>#serializeForm, it seems the jQuery stuff encodes our special characters to utf-8. I can see that Firebug sends two characters for every Umlaut up to the server.
>
> So I need a way to tell the machinery below serializeForm to treat form data as iso-8859-15.
>
> I have tweaked WAScriptGenerator>>#writeScriptTag:on: in order to set the charset of Javascripts to 8859-15, but to no avail, because this only indicates the script is encoded in that charset.
> Also, (html jQuery ajax scriptCharset: 'iso-8859-15') serializeForm does not do the trick.
>
> So I'd be grateful for any pointers to how to make serializeForm treat my form data as something else than utf-8.
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> Joachim
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