Question

I’m using the .load() method in jQuery but I’ve realized that the request to my server should use ISO-8859-1 charset and not UTF-8. The problem is that I can’t find how to set load method to use a different encoding. I read that .ajax method has ‘content-type’ setting to do this, but what about load method? I find load very useful when I need to update data from some divs without refreshing the page.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Using ajaxSetup allows you to specify the settings for new ajax calls.

All subsequent Ajax calls using any function will use the new
settings, unless overridden by the individual calls, until the next
invocation of $.ajaxSetup().

with beforeSend you can provide a callback function to modify the XMLHttpRequest object before it’s going to be send. jQuery Reference

Mozilla provides documentation about overrideMimeType():

Overrides the MIME type returned by the server. This may be used, for
example, to force a stream to be treated and parsed as text/xml, even
if the server does not report it as such.This method must be called
before send().

Borrowing code from this answer you could do:

$.ajaxSetup({
    'beforeSend' : function(xhr) {
        xhr.overrideMimeType('text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');
    },
});