[Bug 6742] pre-encoded form values should be restorable as submitted

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6742


Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>  2009-03-30 09:34:54 ---
The problem isn't percent encoding. The problem is UA-performed NCR encoding
when the submission charset is not UTF-8.

The only interoperable and backwards compatible way to avoid this problem is
that the server 
1) Serves all its forms as UTF-8.
2) Does not expand NCRs, because strings that look like NCRs will always be
user-entered and not UA-generated when the form was served as UTF-8.

All in all, any site that has forms should use UTF-8. Or more generally, all
sites should use UTF-8.

(Migration to UTF-8 is about as easy as migration to any novel workaround for
this old problem. And migration to UTF-8 works with existing UAs while novel
workarounds would not.)


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