- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:27:34 +0200
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Philip Taylor wrote: > > Julian Reschke wrote: >> It gets really interesting only with form submission, where it's the >> browser that's constructing the query part. I really wish we had a way >> to force the browser to use UTF-8, *no matter* what the page encoding is. > > Does <form method="GET" accept-charset="utf-8"> do what you want? That > results in percent-encoded UTF-8 in all the browsers I've tested, > regardless of the document charset. Thanks a lot Philip. I didn't know that. That makes the whole problem almost completely uninteresting to me, as page producers can simply always send true URLs (plain ASCII). That's a bit against the spirit of "IRI everywhere" -- <http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/27> -- but hey, that's still in state "open" :-). BR, Julian
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