# Help! Invalid character in IE **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 27, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-invalid-character-in-ie/184250 "2010-02-27T06:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-invalid-character-in-ie/184250/1 "2010-02-27T06:08:15Z")
Hi, folks, I have been wrestling with this for a couple of days now. Everything works great on all browsers except IE! IE keeps giving errors like “Invalid character …line 2 character 1” when an AJAX call is submitted. The call will succeed and the page will be updated correctly, but always generates the annoying error! I have set the character set to ‘utf-8’ and set the response header to ‘utf-8’ as well, so there is no character set mismatch here. Anybody had similar problems before can give me some help? Thanks in advance! John ---
**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-invalid-character-in-ie/184250/2 "2010-02-27T15:11:53Z")
interesting… sample code please? can we see the AJAX call? Can you submit from IE with different parameters that will avoid the error message? On 27 February 2010 00:06, John S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have set the character set to ‘utf-8’ and set the response header to > “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. > To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > . > For more options, visit this group at > [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). – Charles A. Lopez removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid What’s your vision for your organization? What’s your biggest challenge? Let’s talk. (IBM Partner)