Supporting international languages via Ajax seems like it should be easy, since browsers send Ajax data using UTF-8, right? Well, it’s not that simple, because there are a large number of people out there still developing Web applications on the server using older ISO encodings (at least in the PHP world). So, with our project xajax, we wanted to make it easy for people to round-trip international characters using the encoding of their choice. It wasn’t easy, and we made a few false starts, but with the latest release of xajax 0.2.3, I think we finally got it.

So, if you’re a PHP developer and want to take advantage of Ajax, you owe it to yourself to check out xajax. It’s shaping up to be a really solid library. And yes, I’m biased!

(P.S. Got feedback? Let me know!)

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