title: Characters with jquery json
body: <p>I'm using jquery $.getJSON to retrieve list of cities.</p>
  
  <p>Everything works fine, but I'm from Estonia and we are using some characters like õ, ü. ä, ö.</p>
  
  <p>When I pass letters like this to callback function, I keep getting empty strings. I've tried to base64 encode(server-side)-decode(jquery base64 plugin) strings (i thought it was a good idea as long as I can compress pages with php, so I don't have to worry about bandwidth), but in this way I end up with some random chinese symbols.</p>
  
  <p>What would be the best workaround for this problem.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>