[whatwg] URL query component from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-04-20 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from April 2012)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:15:16 +0200
Message-ID: <op.wc13zqxp64w2qv@annevk-macbookpro.local>

The URL query component for URLs found in HTML (exact set still be to be  
defined I think) uses the page encoding when the page encoding is not  
utf-8/utf-16 (then it uses utf-8).

E.g. "?&euro;" maps to "?%80" in a windows-1252 encoded page.

Currently browsers differ for what happens when the code point cannot be  
encoded. E.g. "?&euro;"

Opera uses "?". Internet Explorer uses "?" (but when the URL hits the  
network layer, not when you inspect it via script). WebKit uses "&#...;".  
Gecko encodes it using utf-8.

What Gecko does makes the resulting data impossible to interpret.

What WebKit does is consistent with form submission. I like it.


Also, given that encoding behavior is not exposed besides form submission  
and URLs, consistently using "&#...;" for code points not represented in  
legacy encodings makes sense to me. Am I missing something?


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Friday, 20 April 2012 02:15:16 UTC