Hi

I have a normal ajax-function that works fine. It executes with this jquery-code in the template:

<a href="#" onclick="jQuery('#ajaxContent').load('http://localhost:8888/mysite/kontakt/erstatBillede/299'); return false;">

And the php-code also works fine:

function erstatBillede()
	{
	 	if($this->isAjax) 
		{
			$BilledeID = Director::urlParam("ID");
			$Billede = DataObject::get_one("BilledeObject", "BilledeID = $BilledeID");
			
			return $Billede->renderWith("ajaxSnippet");
		}
		else
		{
		   	return Array();
		}
	}

And at last the code for the ajaxSnippet:

<% control Billede %>
	<a href="$URL" class="group" title='$Title' rel="galleri">
		<img class="thumb" src="<% control SetWidth(360) %>$URL<% end_control %>" alt='$Title'/>
	</a>
<% end_control %>

$HTMLBeskrivelse

Now the problem is the HTMLTextfield: $HTMLBeskrivelse - this is plain html-code made in a SimpleTinyMCEField in an object powered by the DataObjectManager module. All of this also works fine, except when I use special characters like æ, ø and å in danish.

I've checked my database and it uses UTF-8 just like the html-template, so I guess that shouldn't be the problem.

If I change $HTMLBeskrivelse from "HTMLTextfield" to "Textfield" then I get raw html code out into the template. For some reason it just doesn't work as html-text.

I've also done a ContentNegotiator::disable(); in _config.php, but this doesn't make any difference.

Can anyone help?

Found a solution on this problem. I've been using ZendAMF to retrieve some data from Silverstripe to ActionsScript 3 and I remember having a similar problem. So I used this PHP function called html_entity_decode, which apparantly also helped with my AJAX problem:

	 function erstatBillede()
	 {
	 	if($this->isAjax) 
		{
			$BilledeID = Director::urlParam("ID");
			$Billede = DataObject::get_one("BilledeObject", "BilledeID = $BilledeID");
			$Billede->HTMLBeskrivelse = html_entity_decode($Billede->HTMLBeskrivelse, ENT_NOQUOTES, "UTF-8");
			return $Billede->renderWith("ajaxSnippet");
		}
		else
		{
		   	return Array();
		}
	}

If you have any insight on this issue please post and share.

Unfortunately this is the sad reality that is UTF-8 compliance. Decoding/Encoding the entities with php's built in functions as you are doing might be the best option. You might also give shot with iconv for comprehensive language set conversion:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

Ok, thanks for the reply...