title: Submitting a form using ajax causes strange behavior with the Charset
body: <p>I am having an issue here with a form being posted via Ajax.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my jQuery code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;
      $(document).ready(function(){
        $("#newdata").submit(function(event) {          
          event.preventDefault();          
          $.post( "save.asp",  $("#newdata").serialize() , 
            function( data ) {  
          });           
        });
      });
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is when I submit data with special characters like <code>®</code> or <code>©</code> it saves it with an <code>Â</code> in front of it.  But if i submit without the jQuery/Ajax it doesn't format the data with this <code>Â</code> character.  Does anyone know why I'm having this problem?</p>