Problem with special characters using AJAX

[bluecat76]

I have setup a search suggestion and am observing following problem:

Special characters (in this case german umlaut äöü) are NOT included in Ajax calls ($.get or $.getJSON) in Internet Explorer.

Example:

1.) The query reads "search_suggestion.asp?query=süd" when output via alert or similar.

2.) Logging on the Webserver yields:

Request from Firefox(3, 3.5): search_suggestion.asp query=s%C3%BCd Request from IE (6, 7, 8): search_suggestion.asp query=sd

All encoding is in UTF-8. Maybe some AJAX-related function in jQuery removes special characters from the query? Please let me know, if you need more information on this.

[bluecat76]

Please ignore/close this bug, it is not jQuery related!

I was using the escape function and now learned, that this can NOT escape utf-8 chars! Using encodeURIComponent now, which works.

[anuroop_v@…]

i am also facing this issue,how can manage this