- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:37:53 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-international@w3.org
Hello Ian, [We may want to move this discussion to a more spec-oriented list.] For the moment, I think that the best behavior would be to put up a dialog and tell the user that some characters could not be submitted. If the form is in iso-8859-1, for example, the chances are very high that the back end logic (or something in between) is also limited to iso-8859-1. The mid-term solution is UTF-8, for example as described at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html The long-term solution is XForms. Regards, Martin. At 18:13 03/09/10 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: >If you have a form on a page that is ISO-8859-1, and the data that is >submitted (either as GET or as POST) from that form contains characters >outside the ISO-8859-1 repertoire, what should the UA do? > >This is not an idle question, both Opera and Mozilla need an answer to >this in order to implement interoperable behaviour soon. > >Cheers, >-- >Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL >U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. >http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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