title: Internet explorer won't sent special characters
body: <p>My website: www.egemen.dk</p>
  
  <p>I'm developing a website and have problems with special characters on IE. On my website there is a dropdown box with a number of lastnames. These lastnames can contain special characters like ô, î,ö, etc. Everything works fine when getting these lastnames from database to build the dropdown and special characters are displayed correctly, however, the user should be able to select a lastname and perform a search. When selecting a lastname with special character, the code calls javascript method to connect to database. In FF and safari it works, but with IE it can't send these special characters correctly to the javascript. Any idea?</p>
  
  <p>Javascript:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
  function searchUser(str)
  {
      var call ="/Data/controller.php?cmd="+str;
      if(str == "searchByName"){
          call += "&amp;name=" + document.getElementById("s_name").value;
          call += "&amp;lname=" + document.getElementById("s_lname").value;
      }
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
    {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
  else
    {// code for IE6, IE5
    xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
    {
    if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 &amp;&amp; xmlhttp.status==200)
      {
      document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
      }
    }
  xmlhttp.open("GET", call ,true);
      xmlhttp.send();
      }
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Index.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1  /DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
  
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
  
  &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also tried with utf-8 as the charset in meta.</p>