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Ajax Live search works in FF but not in IE


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I used the excellent PHP ajax live search from w3-schools http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_livesearch.asp for my webpage (www.allmanmedicin.se).It works perfectly in Firefox but not in IE. The problem is that as soon as the swedish characters å, ä or ö is used the only result from the form in IE is a square.It doesn't matter which character encoding I use. å, ä and ö are part of ASCII and of course UTF-8. But even when I check that the characterset of the page correctly is set to utf-8 in IE it doesn't work.No matter which character encoding I use it works brilliantly in Firefox but all my users have IE.Any idéas?

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I get the feeling that it can make a change if I use $_POST instead of $_GET but I'm not sure how to adapt the code from the example. Anyone out there that could give me a hand? Any other suggestions?

<html><head><script type="text/javascript">function showResult(str){if (str.length==0)  {  document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML="";  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="0px";  return;  }if (window.XMLHttpRequest)  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();  }else  {// code for IE6, IE5  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");  }xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()  {  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)    {    document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;    document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="1px solid #A5ACB2";    }  }xmlhttp.open("GET","livesearch.php?q="+str,true);xmlhttp.send();}</script></head><body><form><input type="text" size="30" onkeyup="showResult(this.value)" /><div id="livesearch"></div></form></body></html><?php$xmlDoc=new DOMDocument();$xmlDoc->load("links.xml");$x=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('link');//get the q parameter from URL$q=$_GET["q"];//lookup all links from the xml file if length of q>0if (strlen($q)>0){$hint="";for($i=0; $i<($x->length); $i++)  {  $y=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('title');  $z=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('url');  if ($y->item(0)->nodeType==1)    {    //find a link matching the search text    if (stristr($y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue,$q))      {      if ($hint=="")        {        $hint="<a href='" .        $z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue .        "' target='_blank'>" .        $y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>";        }      else        {        $hint=$hint . "<br /><a href='" .        $z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue .        "' target='_blank'>" .        $y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>";        }      }    }  }}// Set output to "no suggestion" if no hint were found// or to the correct valuesif ($hint=="")  {  $response="no suggestion";  }else  {  $response=$hint;  }//output the responseecho $response;?> 

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add this to the top of every php code that being included by the ajax:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1255');
change the charset to your language. this is for my language.i also had this problem as yours, and it solves this.
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add this to the top of every php code that being included by the ajax:change the charset to your language. this is for my language.i also had this problem as yours, and it solves this.
Thank you for your answer. Did you have the same problem with your live search working everywhere but in IE? I tried your solution and it doesn't change anything for me. I've tried to change to encoding iso-8859-1 (recommended for swedish) and to utf-8 and to windows-1255 and i've done the changes to both the php-pages and the xml-page.Still running smoothly in FF and with letters a-z in IE. The problem seems to be in the form-function. All the å,ä and ö-letters show up perfectly in the results even in IE and you can write them in the form. But when I check how IE interprets what was written in the form it replaces å,ä and ö with squares or nothing... Extremely frustrating
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Thank you for your answer. Did you have the same problem with your live search working everywhere but in IE? I tried your solution and it doesn't change anything for me. I've tried to change to encoding iso-8859-1 (recommended for swedish) and to utf-8 and to windows-1255 and i've done the changes to both the php-pages and the xml-page.Still running smoothly in FF and with letters a-z in IE. The problem seems to be in the form-function. All the å,ä and ö-letters show up perfectly in the results even in IE and you can write them in the form. But when I check how IE interprets what was written in the form it replaces å,ä and ö with squares or nothing... Extremely frustrating
What happens now is that I can get IE to read the form properly by setting the charcode to iso-8859-1 in the php-include. But then it i misinterpreted in FF instead where funny characters start to appear and it also reads the xml-file wrongly. Help! When I set everything to UTF-8 it works in Firefox but with iso-8859-1 it doesn't work there...
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