jQuery $.get() charset of reply when no header is set?

Question

I just recently installed Winamp Song Requester wich is a Winamp web song requester plugin with a built in minimal HTTP CGI Server.

What the plugin does is that it r

Answer 1

edit: ok i think this works (at least it worked in my test environment, see revisions for previous attempt)

$.ajaxSetup({
    'beforeSend' : function(xhr) {
        xhr.overrideMimeType('text/html; charset=UTF-8');
    },
});
$('#stuff').load('/yourresource.file'); // your ajax load

what i had was the main file set in UTF-8 and the data file set in ISO-8859-1. without the above code, i got a bunch of garbage for the test string åäöé, as expected. with the above code, it loaded åäöé properly encoded.