[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug 4820: IRRE - Wrong character encoding in AJAX response

[Martin Kutschker]

Oliver Hader schrieb:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> 
>>>>Does this work if BE charset is not utf-8?
>>>>      
>>>
>>>Yes, I can confirm this for iso-8859-1.
>>>    
>>
>>...with non-English characters?..
> 
> 
> Yes, I tested with German and French characters like "äöüßéèê...".
> Did you experience a different behaviour?

This is possible if somewhere in the JS code you use escape() *. escape() 
will not work reliable with all charsets (and browsers).

Masi

* Newer browsers convert the current page charset to iso-8859-1 before 
doing the acutal escaping.