I have a simple jquery ajax post cal to send some data to a server. The data contains characters in UTF-8.
Here is the code:
var data = {
name: "Ländertrends"
}
var data_string = JSON.stringify(data);
console.log(data_string); //encoding still looks good here
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "includes/savedashboard.php",
data: { saveDashboard: data_string, dashboardname: name, conf: conf },
contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8",
success: function(result) {
console.log(result);
}
});
includes/savedashboard.php looks like this:
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
var_dump($_POST['saveDashboard']);
?>
On my development server (Ubuntu 14.04, Apache2, PHP 5.5.9), the output is fine and looks like you would expect:
string(24) "{"name":"Ländertrends"}"
However, on a second server (CentOS 6.8, Cpanel, Apache2, PHP 5.4.45), the encoding is messed up:
string(25) "{"name":"L���ndertrends"}"
I can see the content type of the request comes back as UTF-8.
If I use mb_detect_encoding() it says the string is in EUC-JP.
My guess is that some system setting is making the difference, but which one?
I have already set the content type, also added AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to a .htaccess file, and added charset="utf-8" to my script tags, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
By the way, I can work around the problem by converting the string back to UTF-8, but I would like to know why this is happening on one server and not the other.
