Re: Form submission when successful controls contain characters outside the submission character set

At 08:39 03/09/11 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:

>Unfortunately this is not a workable solution from three reasons:
>
>  * If there's an accept-charset attribute, it's wrong to violate it.
>  * There's no standard way to include character set selection information
>    in a GET request (for forms with method="get").
>  * Most servers cannot handle UTF-8 when they expect ISO-8859-1.
>
>The first two are problems from a theoretical point of view, the last one
>is a practical problem that prevents us from doing this.

Most servers that handle iso-8859-1 will gladly accept UTF-8,
because they very rarely check against bytes in the 0x80-0x9F
range. But of course they will interpret this data as iso-8859-1,
which is not what you want.


Regards,   Martin.