- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:21:03 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
* Ian Hickson wrote: >Proposal: > > If the form data set contains characters that are outside the > acceptable submission character sets, the user agent SHOULD inform > the user that his submission will be changed, for example using a > dialog in the form: > [...] > If the submission is not cancelled, the user agent MUST replace > each character that is not in the submission character set with a > single replacement character, either U+FFFD, "?", or some other > character depending on the availability of characters in the > submission character set. > >I would recommend inserting this into HTML 4.01 section 17.13.3, or >into an XHTML forms module if we want to be forward-looking instead. Note that GET submissions are limited to US-ASCII; by your proposal it would be impossible to search for "Björn" on Google while it currently is just undefined what happens if I try.
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