- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:02:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "kuro@sonic.net" <kuro@sonic.net>
- Cc: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote: > > In that case (accept-charset does not include Unicode charsets), > the best "solution" may be simply replace those > out-of-charset characters with a replacement character, > probably '?', on transmission. This is what Opera currently does. > Do you have a particular use case where sending the > out-of-charset characters may be benefitial? Not really. Opera has received complaints that, e.g. on www.aqua-soft.org, users who have signed up using Internet Explorer or Mozilla and included non-latin1 characters in their username, cannot log in with Opera, because the different browsers differ in their handling of out-of-charset characters. Hence the need for some sort of decision as to what UAs should do. Ideally, this would be a normative errata to some spec (e.g. HTML4), so that all UAs still in active development could change to be interoperable. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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