RE: Form submission when successful controls contain characters outside the submission character set from Francois Yergeau on 2003-09-11 (www-international@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:50:13 -0400
To: www-international@w3.org
Message-ID: <F7D4BDA0E5A1D14B99D32C022AEB73660EB373@alis-2k.alis.domain>

John Cowan wrote:
> > Currently MS IE and Mozilla use a proprieatary '_charset_' for this
> > purpose only when the hidden field of '_charset_' is present in the
form).
> 
> IMHO this should be documented and treated as best practice.  

Seconded.

This would seem to belong in the HTML 4 spec (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.3 Processing form
data), but this is very much fully set concrete by now.  Where else?

-- 
François

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