title: Jquery UTF-8 Character Encoding
body: <p>i have my get method using <code>jquery</code> that passes a variable which may contain Japanese characters. as i tested it, jquery doesn't allow the inputs with japanese characters eventhough i already used the <code>encodeURIComponent()</code>. below is my snippet:</p>
  
  <pre><code>function checkMediaPrefix(){
     var query = encodeURIComponent($('#mediaType :selected').text());
     var uri = 'nofilter/checkMediaPrefix/options?mediaType=' + query;
  
     alert(uri);
  
     $.get(uri, function(responseText){
     $('#mediaPrefix').text(responseText);
     $('input#mediaPrefText').val(responseText);
  });
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the error says Internal Server Error Status 500. please help, thank you.</p>