- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:54:45 +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: >> >> 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. > > This seems an interoperability question rather than a "what is right" > question. In that case, they should just mimick the behavior of the > leading browser, probably IE, even if it is not the right behavior under > the standard. We are discussing changing the behaviour of the browsers concerned (Opera and Mozilla) to be "what is right", possibly at the expense of compatibility with IE. > But I still question the wisdome of supporting such applications; the > web application in question may appear to be working properly but there > is no guarantee to keep working properly, since it is not written to > support characters outside of ISO 8859-1. It is very risky to use such > application, and I think giving users an illusion that the application > works properly does more harm in a long run. I couldn't agree more. But that directly contradict your last statement! :-) -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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