- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:51:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Paul Deuter <PaulD@plumtree.com>, "by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>:"@dhalsim.dreamhost.com
- Cc: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Paul Deuter wrote: > > I agree with Kuro. If you want to be compatible with legacy servers > which you seem to want to, then you better encode the text in the > character set of the page or the form. That is, in your example, 8859-1. Agreed. > It might actually be nice for the browser to warn the user when they > attempt to type a character outside the 8859-1 set. I do not believe that your average user is likely to understand the concept of character sets, and I have no idea how I would even begin to write a warning message for this issue. > I don't think anyone expects Opera or Mozilla to be able to compensate > for the limitations of legacy servers and legacy server side code. Oh but they do. :-) > The clear direction of the W3C to solve these character set issues is > for new web software to implement good support for UTF-8 and to > encourage web page authors to upgrade to UTF-8. Indeed. But that doesn't help the ISO-8859-1 case. :-( -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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