- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:09:31 -0500
- To: lee@sq.com
- CC: Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr, masinter@parc.xerox.com, J.Larmouth@iti.salford.ac.uk, www-international@w3.org
>> I propose that HTML be modified so that the very special construct: >> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=charset> >> i.e., a form with a hidden field with the field name "charset" be >> interpreted as "supply the charset used for encoding the values". > >If HTML could be changed, perhaps an attribute on the FORM would >make more sense? I am probably responsible for this. In Seville I showed the kinds of problem we have with DynaWeb, and suggested that you could use a "hidden" field to indicate encoding, and look at the actual values as just strings of bytes: /foo?charset=SHIFT-JIS;value1=%83%54%83%8f%81%5b%83%4e%83%8a%81%5b%83%80 as a hack. The browser would supply the "charset=XXXX" part automagically.
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