AJAX Import of certain text fiiles produces strange output on Firefox

Asked Nov 10 '16 at 10:41

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I am trying to import a clients .txt file which will then be turned into a JS array using an AJAX call. The call works fine on Chrome and Safari but when I import the file and console log it in FireFox - I see this result:

If I copy all of the contents of the file and paste it into a new .txt file that I've created, the errors don't display.

Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but the client has roughly 6000 of these .txt files that they would like to use. Is there something I should be putting in my AJAX call to correct these odd character additions?

This is my current code, reduced to core functionality for brevity:

$(document).ready(function () {
      $.ajax({
        url: "./data/words.txt",
        success: function (csvd) {
            console.log(csvd);
        },
        dataType: "text",
        complete: function () {
            // levelSelect();
        }
    });
});

edited Nov 10 '16 at 11:20

DavidG

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asked Nov 10 '16 at 10:41

GlueDigiStu

What character set are the text files in, and what character set is the server serving for them when you make the Ajax call? – Pekka Nov 10 '16 at 10:44
do your clients see your data always in the console :)) – madalinivascu Nov 10 '16 at 10:48
when you print the data to the page do the characters appear? – madalinivascu Nov 10 '16 at 10:49
your text file data is not seemed utf-8 – Hitesh Jangid Nov 10 '16 at 10:49
How do I check the character set? It could be possible as these files are potentially 13 year old and contain both English and French words. – GlueDigiStu Nov 10 '16 at 11:32
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4255305/how-to-determine-encoding-table-of-a-text-file – Pekka Nov 10 '16 at 19:23

AJAX Import of certain text fiiles produces strange output on Firefox

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