Re: several messages from Martin Duerst on 2003-09-20 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:37:49 -0400
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: www-international@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20030919203547.02ba1df8@localhost>

At 23:21 03/09/19 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>* Ian Hickson wrote:

> >I would recommend inserting this into HTML 4.01 section 17.13.3, or
> >into an XHTML forms module if we want to be forward-looking instead.
>
>Note that GET submissions are limited to US-ASCII; by your proposal it
>would be impossible to search for "Bj��n" on Google while it currently
>is just undefined what happens if I try.

Now that's an oversight in the HTML spec (because at another place,
it says what to do with non-ASCII forms input) and should be corrected
with an erratum. (I have bcc'ed the relevant email list.)

Regards,    Martin.

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