special characters not displaying on ajax update

[spiderwell]

i have made a site, intending it to be an online resource for copy and pasting lists in various formats.

a list is pulled from the database and then returned as either a csv, unordered list, xml etc

I am using ajax to update the textarea with the formating for the list, but i am losing, in this instance, french letters.

 

Here is an example: its a list of months in french

 

http://ethickink.co.uk/lists/pages/listdetail.php?id=36

 

when the list first displays it has the accents on letters etc all showing fine, but if you click from the options to list as say an <ul> the foreign letters get broken.

 

if i take the link and open it in a seperate page it displays them fine (http://ethickink.co.uk/lists/pages/returngenlist.php?id=36&action=ul), but i have added a class to the links to allow ajax/jquery to operate instead.

 

my ajax looks like this:

 

$(function() { 
   $('.generatorlink').click( function() { 
         $.get( $(this).attr('href'), function(msg) { 
             $("#listdisplay").text(msg);
         }); 
         return false; // don't follow the link! 
   }); 
}); 

#listdisplay is the text area where the ouput is placed in the main area

[spiderwell]

anyone any ideas?

[spiderwell]

anyone any ideas?

[sunfighter]

anyone any ideas?

 

spiderwell I really don't know what I'm talking about here, but in looking at the script the only thing that stands out as a maybe culprit is the use of the clipboard to write your lists. If you've used document.getElementById("listdisplay").innerText = returnedTEXT; and that don't do it I'm out of ideas.

 

PS. 'returnedTEXT' is not the correct words. I would use document.getElementById("listdisplay").innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText; but your doing this in jquery and I don't know the words for that.