can anyone help? I have small procedure to read in an UTF-8 file with javascript using XMLHttpRequest.. this file has european characters like miércoles sábado etc.. Notice the accents..

But when being read in .. the characters are all messed up.. I have checked the file and it is perfect.. it must be the procedure for reading in..

heres an example i have file that contains, the file is perfect, it happens to be javascript but it doesn't matter.. any UTF-8 encoding file with special characters gives me the same issue

this.weekDays = new Array(Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, Jueves, Viernes, Sábado, Domingo);

but when returned and read by the procedure below it is like this (notice the funny characters in sabado and miercoles)

this.weekDays = new Array(Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, Jueves, Viernes, Sábado, Domingo);

Here is my procedure - its very small...

var contentType = application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8;



var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); 

request.open(GET, path, false);

request.setRequestHeader('Content-type', contentType)



if (request.overrideMimeType) request.overrideMimeType(contentType);



try { request.send(null); }

catch (e) { return null; }

if (request.status == 500 || request.status == 404 || request.status == 2 || (request.status == 0 && request.responseText == '')) return null;



//PROBLEM HERE is with european charcters that are read in



print(request.responseText);





return request.responseText;