- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:11:10 +0200
- To: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: "public-iri@w3.org" <public-iri@w3.org>
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:57:40 +0200, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote: > The most relevant text in HTML4 on URIs is at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.1, and specifies to > use UTF-8, independent of the part of the URI. For what I stated the most relevant bit is the note below about "some older user agents", I think. > This essentially says that you MAY send data from a form in the document > encoding, and was followed well by browsers. It seems that some browser > implementer along the way extended that to query parts in other URIs > (which don't have anything to do with <form>), and got stuck with it. I very much doubt this happened post-HTML4. Anyway, too late now. > This is especially unlucky as for <form>, you can just say > accept-charset='utf-8', and get all the data sent in UTF-8, but there is > no such attribute on a@href and others. There's a document-wide switch named UTF-8. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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