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A problem appeared when I had to serialize forms that contained accents or '+', because serialize uses encodeURIComponent which always encode in UTF-8.

I had to implement the following serializeLatin to overcome the problem :

1. // Kind of encodeURIComponent for ISO-8859
2. function escapeComponent(str) { 
3.     return escape(str).replace(/\+/g, '%2B');
4. }
5.  
6. // Kind of $.param for ISO-8859
7. $.paramLatin = function( a ) {
8.     var s = [];
9.      $.each( a, function( i, kv ) {
10.         s[ s.length ] = escapeComponent(kv.name) +"="+ escapeComponent(kv.value);
11.     });
12.      return s.join("&").replace(/%20/g, '+');
13. };
14.  
15. // Kind of $.fn.serialize for ISO-8859
16. $.fn.serializeLatin = function() {
17.     return $.paramLatin( this.serializeArray() );
18. };