encoding of characters in query parameters, was: Confusing use of "URI" to refer to IRIs, and IRI handling in the DOM

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> ...
>> Understood again, but maybe it makes sense to ask the question again, 
>> now that all browser vendors are actually part of the same 
>> specification effort.
> 
> To my knowledge, using the page encoding for the query part of the URL 
> is still required for interoperability with a number of servers. We 
> would not be willing to break those servers.
> ...

OK, thanks for letting us know.

Would you consider supporting a document-wide opt-in to use UTF-8 though?

BR, Julian