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Asked: 2026-06-14T00:53:54+00:00

I have a similar problem to this: jQuery AJAX Character Encoding but any solution

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I have a similar problem to this: jQuery AJAX Character Encoding but any solution mentioned there works for me.

I’ve made three easy files to show the problem:

PHP File:

//prueba.php
echo "nº one two € áéíóú";

JavaScript File (I use JQuery)

//Javascript file
    function prueba() {
        $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=ISO-8859-1",
            url: "prueba.php",
        }).done(function( data ) {
            $("#prueba").text(data); 
            //$("#prueba").html(data); //It does the same encoding error 
        });
    }

** HTML File:**

<html>
    <head>
        <title>E-COMMERCE</title>
        <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

        <script src="javascript/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="javascript/javascript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <a href="javascript:prueba()">Prueba</a>
        <div id="prueba"></div>
    </body>

</html>

And when you click the link Prueba it shows: 

Prueba
n� uno dos � �����

The current website works perfectly but it does not use ajax and it is in the same server where i am doing this, so How can I tell to jquery to return ISO-8859-1 instead of whatever it is returning? I know that the ideal is to use always utf-8 but changing to utf-8 it will give us some problems we cant afford right now.

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  1. Editorial Team

    To make the browser use the correct encoding, you have to add an HTTP header to the php page :

    header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1");

    or you could put the encoding in a meta tag of the html:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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