is there a cross-browser alternative to the xhr.overrideMimeType() function?

Question

I don\'t have access to the server and I need that the whole AJAX transaction to happen using the ISO-8859-1 charset. I\'m using the jQuery.load() function together with the

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem but the issue is basically that 'overrideMimeType' is not supported in IE (any version). So basically you need to do something like in the following articles:

jQuery, AJAX and Internet Explorer by Jeremy Hixon or this question here in StackOverflow

Hope this helps.