- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:10:23 -0500
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, uri@w3.org
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:47 -0700, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: [...] > > The second is with IRIs and character encodings other than UTF-8. While > > browsers reliably encode non-ASCII characters in the path using UTF-8, > > non-ASCII characters in the query component are encoded using the > > document's character encoding, and not UTF-8, which is incompatible with > > how the IRI spec defines things. > > You mean, for instance, when submitting a form using GET? Interesting. > If so that's a flat-out browser bug and should be fixed. The bug has been reported, and in fact firefox and IE have support for using UTF-8 in this situation, but it's not turned on by default. In Bug 42899 (iri) – IRI support (RFC 3987), Reported: 2000-06-16, I found: "Set network.standard-url.encode-utf8 to "true" in about:config. See bug 284474 for why this is not the default." that refers to: Bug 284474 – Converting to UTF-8 a url with an unescaped non-ASCII chars in the query part leads to an incompatibility with most server-side programs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284474 reported 2005-03-02 RESOLVED FIXED (hmm... how can I find out when it was resolved?) There are lots of more or less directly related bugs. I'm swimming around in them, trying to review the arguments... Bug 169388 – Handling of non ASCII characters in URLs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169388 status: NEW reported 2002-09-18 Bug 261929 – Consider sending urls in UTF-8 by default (images/links with non-ASCII chacters not displayed) Reported: 2004-09-28 RESOLVED FIXED https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261929 I also found this article kinda helpful... An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses Richard Ishida, W3C first published 2005-01-14. Last substantive update 2008-05-09 http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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