Re: what should the charset be in the response to the server

• From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:46:15 -0400
• To: "Chris Haynes" <chris@harvington.org.uk>, "Jungshik Shin" <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
• Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20030807111702.0530e410@localhost>

At 12:15 03/07/26 +0100, Chris Haynes wrote:

>  "Jungshik Shin" replied at: Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:31 AM

> >   It also depends on whether or not you set 'send URLs always in
>UTF-8' in
> > Tools|Options(?) in MS IE.
> >
>
>True, but I'm trying to find a 'reliable' mechanism which is not
>dependent on user-accessible controls.
>IMHO, this is also a 'dangerous' option, in that it goes agains the de
>facto conventions and anticipates (parhaps incorrectly) the
>recommendations of the proposed IRI RFC. It can only safely be used
>with a 'consenting' server site.

Sorry, no. The main dangerous thing is that authors use non-ASCII
characters in URIs (without any %HH escaping) when this is clearly
forbidden.

Regards,  Martin.

Received on Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:46:55 UTC