I recently changed some of my pages to be displayed via ajax and I am having some confusion as to why the utf8 encoding is now displaying a question mark inside of a box, whereas before it wasn't.
Fore example. The oringal page was index.php. charset was explicitly set to utf8 and is in the <head>. I then used php to query the database
Heres is the original index.php page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Title here</title>
</head>
<body class='body_bgcolor' >
<div id="main_container">
<?php
Data displayed via php was simply a select statement that output the HTML.
?>
</div>
However, when I made the change to add a menu that populated the "main_container" via ajax all the utf8 encoding stopped working. Here's the new code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Title here</title>
</head>
<body class='body_bgcolor' >
<a href="#" onclick="display_html('about_us');"> About Us </a>
<div id="main_container"></div>
The "display_html()" function calls the javascript page which uses jquery ajax call to retrieve the html stored inside a php page, then places the html inside the div with an id of "main_container". I'm setting the charset in jquery to be utf8 like:
$.ajax({
async: false,
type: "GET",
url: url,
contentType: "charset=utf-8",
success: function(data)
{
$("#main_container").html(data);
}
});
What am I doing wrong?