Rails spinoffs - Jan 2007 - form serialization for french word

Hi,

I am using prototype''s Form.serialize to serialize data and post it to
a url. sometimes the data may contain french word and it gets
serialized as well. such as énfasis is escaped as %C3%A9nfasis and
becomes énfasis when inserted to database.  I am new to this realm
of problem. how do i keep the word as is during such submit ?

thanks,

James.


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Hi James,

Which encoding do you use otherwise in your web app? For Prototype and 
Scriptaculous it is highly advisable to use Unicode (UTF-8).

Best regards
Janko

shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using prototype''s Form.serialize to serialize data and post
it to
> a url. sometimes the data may contain french word and it gets
> serialized as well. such as énfasis is escaped as %C3%A9nfasis and
> becomes énfasis when inserted to database.  I am new to this realm
> of problem. how do i keep the word as is during such submit ?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> James.
> 
> 
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Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Which encoding do you use otherwise in your web app? For Prototype and
> Scriptaculous it is highly advisable to use Unicode (UTF-8).
>
> Best regards
> Janko
ISO-8859-1. I would prefer to stay with it if possible as we use it
everywhere else.

James.
> shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using prototype''s Form.serialize to serialize data and
post it to
> > a url. sometimes the data may contain french word and it gets
> > serialized as well. such as énfasis is escaped as %C3%A9nfasis and
> > becomes énfasis when inserted to database.  I am new to this realm
> > of problem. how do i keep the word as is during such submit ?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > James.
> > 
> >

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Hey there,

shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org a écrit
:
> ISO-8859-1. I would prefer to stay with it if possible as we use it
> everywhere else.
Aside from the fact that "énfasis" is not a French word... :-)

a) You can''t possibly hope to make intl apps (such as those dealing
with
more than one language) work in iso-8859-1.  It is next to deprecated
for 8859-15 already, and Unicode is just gaining ground by the minute

b) Anything URL-transmitted is, by definition, UTF8-encoded.  This is
nominal behavior, not just Prototype''s or anything: it''s in
the RFC for
URI''s.  Your server side must be able to properly decode UTF-8 URLs, as
it is very likely to get some.  Then it''s up to you to transcode this
to
whatever charset you''re using in the DB.

Still, I *do* advise going UTF-8 throughout your stack ASAP.  You''ll
reap the benefits many times over.

-- 
Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD
"[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain
Email: tdd-x+CfDp/qHev2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org

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Hello James,

On 1/23/07, shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> sometimes the data may contain french word and it gets
> serialized as well. such as énfasis is escaped as %C3%A9nfasis and
> becomes Ã(c)nfasis when inserted to database.
Javascript strings are unicode, this is what your server script gets.
You have to convert it to the charset you what to safe in the database
in your server script.

If you are just starting with your project, I suggest you convert
everything you have so far to unicode (the server-side scripts, the
generated HTMl, the DB content etc.). It is much easier that way in
the long run.

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James,

As Christophe already said, you should think about switching to Unicode 
now, because Ajax libraries usually demand UTF-8. I had similar problems 
with my Slovenian language and ISO-8859-2 and because of no luck with 
supporting it in Ajax, I decided to switch. This switch is once forever, 
that''s also a reason to consider!

Janko

shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> Janko Miv�ek wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Which encoding do you use otherwise in your web app? For Prototype and
>> Scriptaculous it is highly advisable to use Unicode (UTF-8).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Janko
> 
> ISO-8859-1. I would prefer to stay with it if possible as we use it
> everywhere else.
> 
> James.
> 
>> shijialee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using prototype''s Form.serialize to serialize data
and post it to
>>> a url. sometimes the data may contain french word and it gets
>>> serialized as well. such as �nfasis is escaped as %C3%A9nfasis and
>>> becomes énfasis when inserted to database.  I am new to this realm
>>> of problem. how do i keep the word as is during such submit ?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> James.
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> > 
> 
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