- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:02:45 +0300
- To: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On May 23, 2008, at 13:49, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: > On May 23, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> Note: When the document is not encoded as UTF-8, IRIs are not >> converted to URIs properly and to data loss happens in form >> submissions when the user enters characters that cannot be mapped >> to bytes using the encoding of the document. > > > FWIW, Firefox and Safari (not sure about IE) encode form data using > numeric entities in this case, so data loss doesn't happen. I am aware of this. The server cannot know if the user typed a character or a string that looks like an NCR, so I think that is dataloss in the strict sense. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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