Question

I just changed a classic asp page to load a div with some data via jquery.load

This calls another classic asp page that returns the contents of what should be in the div.

The code does looks like this:

<span class="ord-val"><%= FormatCurrency(OrderValueMonth) %></span>

When this code was inline in the orginal page, it worked fine, but since I changed it, it now displays like this:

The jquery code to load the html looks like this:

    $("a#ord").click(function () {
        $("#tab").load('dashorder.asp?<%= strQuerystring %>');
    });

At first I thought that could be a charset problem, but using fiddler I can see that the content-type for all the loaded content is “UTF-8”.

Is there something else I can check?

Answer 1

With help from @HeavenCore’s comments, I’ve stumbled onto this link jQuery AJAX load and encoding/charset problems

I think that’s the best solution because it means thatif I run into further issues, I won’t have to end up replacing every instance of the problem.

In my case I fixed the problem by changing the charset to <% Response.CharSet = "windows-1252" %> for this locale.

Here’s a link to a list of character sets Character sets list