Re: several messages from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-09-22 (www-international@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:53:31 +0200
To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Cc: www-international@w3.org
Message-ID: <3f735d90.10407645@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Martin Duerst wrote:
>> >I would recommend inserting this into HTML 4.01 section 17.13.3, or
>> >into an XHTML forms module if we want to be forward-looking instead.
>>
>>Note that GET submissions are limited to US-ASCII; by your proposal it
>>would be impossible to search for "Bj?n" on Google while it currently
>>is just undefined what happens if I try.
>
>Now that's an oversight in the HTML spec (because at another place,
>it says what to do with non-ASCII forms input) and should be corrected
>with an erratum. (I have bcc'ed the relevant email list.)

I don't think this is an oversight. Which section do you refer to?

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