- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:41:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > I understand that the _charset_ field is needed in url encoded requests, > since any encoding can be chosen through accept-charset and there is no > other way to know the encoding. _charset_ is a horrible solution to a problem that (as you point out) should just be solved by UTF-8. However, in practice sites depend on it because IE does it, and so I included it in the spec so that other vendors had something to refer to when dealing with customer demands. > However, the only legal value in accept-charset should be utf8 when the > method is GET. Fair enough. Added. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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