Re: UTF-8 transfers from browser forms to servers

Dennis,

I'd be interested to hear if the following helps you (or adds to the
confusion!):

http://jetty.mortbay.com/jetty/doc/international.html


Chris Haynes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Heuer (by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>)"
<dh@onclick.org>
To: <www-international@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: UTF-8 transfers from browser forms to servers


>
>
>
>
> Hello -
>
> I am not shure if I'm right here but need some information about the
> transfer format of a UTF-8 string. If I enter some text into a HTML
form
> that is set to UTF-8, will the text be sent to the server (and the
server
> side scripting language) in form of a mix of ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8
codes,
> represented with ISO 8859-1 characters, or is there a completely
different
> format for transfering UTF-8 strings?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Dennis Heuer
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:47:20 UTC