title: JQuery .load() character encoding problem in IE
body: <p>IE (i'm using 8) will not show any swedish characters in a document loaded through jquery .load(). The file is part of the former page the client wants untouched, so I can't go in and change the encoding. 
  This is the code I used to embed a fragment from an HTM doc into the current one (The HTM document is in Windows-1252 and nothing else would work to fix it on Firefox):</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ajaxSetup({contentType: 'text/html;charset=windows-1252'});
  
  $.ajaxSetup({
          'beforeSend' : function(xhr) {
               xhr.overrideMimeType('text/html; charset=windows-1252');
          },
  });
  
  $("#best").load("http://alltomven.se/09-0005-05.htm #table2");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I even have a fix I used for Firefox in there, but this doesn't work for IE. None of the diacritical characters show. What do I do?</p>