sending Umlauts via AJAX

[WuH-IwJEbW]

Using Coldfusion MX 7.0.2, I encountered problems submitting Umlauts properly via AJAX to a CFM.

The CFM page receives the Umlauts as not renderable and the #ASC( )# code returns 65533.
So i checked #getEncoding("form")# and it returned UTF-8.
I set the encoding to iso-8859-1 and - tadaaa - it returned the UTF-8 character for ü for example, which is: ü

After spending some hours of testing how to resolve this, I am now just setting the form-data to iso-8859-1 and afterwards resetting it to utf-8.

Still I am a bit confused of what exactly I am doing. Setting it from UTF-8 to UTF-8 in the end...?
I tested the requests on the same server environment but with php, and always had proper results.
Maybe someone has an answer to this.

Workaround solution:

[WuH-IwJEbW · Accepted solution]

guess it is a java based symptom - sb told me, of having similar problems with tomcat.
use workaround above