https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13017397#M138 <P>Thank you, Philip.</P><P>Setting the request header helped.&nbsp;</P> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:48:35 GMT daniel.wrzesniewski 2024-09-12T18:48:35Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13016878#M136 <P>I use&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest in an action script to get some informations from my tenant.</P><P>Everything works fine but I have problem with response encoding.&nbsp;</P><P>It is piece of the json&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><PRE>"description":"Wrześniewski, Daniel","details":{"descriptor":"Wrześniewski,</PRE><P>How can I set&nbsp; the correct encoding?&nbsp;</P> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:49:53 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13016878#M136 daniel.wrzesniewski 2024-09-12T14:49:53Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13017202#M137 <P>I tried the script below, and made this example work.</P><P>The intention is to run a GET on this item, and copy the Description into Result.</P><P>[This is absolutely NOT the way to write a script more generally, and interrogating a tenant via API is absolutely the <STRONG>last</STRONG> resort, not the first resort, but anyway...]</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>At line 5 you can see the charset is specified in the Accept header.</P><P>The result is what we want...</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="philipfrench_0-1726160726983.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1408629iD78B9767EA4F44C4/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="philipfrench_0-1726160726983.png" alt="philipfrench_0-1726160726983.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you don't include the charset in the Accept, you get a string encoded into whatever charset the server thinks you deserve, and when this it written to a field expecting utf8, you get a mess...</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="philipfrench_1-1726160759213.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1408630i378EE84818933BD1/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="philipfrench_1-1726160759213.png" alt="philipfrench_1-1726160759213.png" /></span></P><P>I suspect this is what you are seeing.</P><P>Try including the charset in the Accept...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="general">var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.open("GET", tenantUrl + '/api/v3/workspaces/'+item.master.workspaceID+'/items/'+item.master.dmsID , false); prepareRequest(req); req.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/json;charset=UTF-8'); req.send(); var jsonObj = JSON.parse( req.responseText ); for (var i in jsonObj.sections) { var section = jsonObj.sections[i]; for (var j in section.fields) { var field = section.fields[j]; if (field.title == 'Description') { item.RESULT = field.value+' at '+new Date(); } } }</LI-CODE><P>...</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:09:59 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13017202#M137 philipfrench 2024-09-12T17:09:59Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13017397#M138 <P>Thank you, Philip.</P><P>Setting the request header helped.&nbsp;</P> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:48:35 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-manage-forum/xmlhttprequest-and-response-encoding/m-p/13017397#M138 daniel.wrzesniewski 2024-09-12T18:48:35Z