Question

I’m inserting a form with AJAX and I’m using: $('#form').serialize() to get all the input and send it to insert.php.

The problem is that characters like á become %A9 and such.

How can I prevent this from happening before sending it or how get the correct characters when I retrieve it through $_POST so I can insert them correctly to my database?

EDIT —–

Btw: Same Form with no AJAX, just action=”POST” to the SAME insert.php inserts correctly, so the problem is solely with serialize() messing the HTML.

Answer 1

Jquery serialize() serializes as UTF-8. So á becomes the correct UTF-8 encoding %c3%a1. Try using the $_REQUEST as that is already decoded as per the php documentation. here