How to change ajax-charset?

Question

How can I change the default encoding used by $.post()?

The arguments are encoded with UTF-8. How can I encode it with ISO 8859-1?

Answer 1

It seems the charset cannot be changed anymore – $.ajax docs states:

The W3C XMLHttpRequest specification dictates that the charset is always UTF-8; specifying another charset will not force the browser to change the encoding.