title: Encoding problem between jQuery and Java
body: <p>My encoding is set to ISO-8859-1.</p>
  
  <p>I'm making an AJAX call using <code>jQuery.ajax</code> to a servlet. The URL (after it has been serialized by jQuery) ends up looking like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>https://myurl.com/countryAndProvinceCodeServlet?action=getProvinces&amp;label=%C3%85land+Islands</code></p>
  
  <p>The actual label value is <code>Åland Islands</code>. When this comes to the servlet, the value that I receive is:</p>
  
  <p><code>Ã\u0085land Islands</code></p>
  
  <p>But this is not what I want. I'd like it to get decoded to <code>Åland Islands</code>. I've tried many things (setting <code>scriptCharset</code>, trying to convert the string using <code>getBytes()</code>, but nothing seems to work).</p>