jQuery post serialize russian

Question

I am trying to post data to a database and the campaigns run in 6 languages, 1 being Russian and its unable to handle the Cyrillic text.

The DTB is setup for UTF8 as the last campaign also used Russian, but jQUery with that one.

$(document).ready(function ()
{
    $("#form").submit(function ()
    { //Use forms ID
        var str = $(this).serialize();
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "includes/postData.php",
            data: str,
            success: function (msg)
            {
                if (msg == 'OK')
                {
                    //alert('success');
                    $('#thankYou').delay(100).fadeIn(350);
                } else
                {
                    result = msg;
                    console.log(msg);
                }
            }
        });
        return false;
    });
});

The error I am getting is "Incorrect string value: '\xC3\x91\xC2\x80\xC3\x91...'"

Tried editing the post data with

$country = utf8_decode($_POST['country']);

Which posts, but then its all ?'s in the DTB.

How would I get jQuery to correctly handle this post fur Russian. Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

After some trial, error, another forum and plenty of google I found a solution. Wrap a decodeURI around the str variable.

        var str1 = $(this).serialize();
        var str = decodeURI(str1);

That fixes up the URI string that jQuery parses on to the post data