EUC-JP encoding - Bug in IE6?

Hi,

I found the following behavior with IE6, while using EUC-JP encoding:

 

I'm having a EUC-JP encoded page with a form, submitted using "GET" method.

 

For example, entering as input the character Unicode U9f3b, the browser
(IE6) encodes it to EUC-JP as C9A1 (%C9%A1in the URL). The server (JBoss)
transcodes it back to u9f3b as expected.

 

Entering as input the character Unicode u9b75, the browser (IE6) encodes it
to EUC-JP as FCE4 (%FC%E4 in the URL). Hmpff.. Here I have problem: The
server transcodes it to uFFFD ("REPLACEMENT CHARACTER"). I checked it
manually and got the same resultes: Java (JDK 1.4.2) does no recognize this
character, but IE6 does. I wrote manually a XML file encoded in EUC-JP with
those characters: IE6 transcoded it to u9b75 and Java transcoded it to
uFFFD.

 

I was thinking that maybe this character in not in EUC-JP encoding, and for
some reason IE6 recognized it. Any idea why IE6 behaves differently from
Java?

 

Thanks,

Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Goldschmidt

 

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