Re: Effect of IE7 "Send UTF-8 URLs" option

KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone know what "Send UTF-8 URLs" option in Internet Explorer 7 does?
>   
Hello,

>From my experience, I suspect that this option instructs IE7 to send the
URL (IRI here) in native script encoded UTF-8. That means that IE7 will
not replace the utf-8 bytes of non-ASCII characters by escape sequences.
Note that the IRI should work, even if it's non-ascii characters are
represented with escape sequences, these are legal. But not all browsers
are smart enough to do that. (I think Opera is OK).

Hope this helps.

Best,
Najib

> I tried posting a form that includes non-ASCII characters in a form
> variable's value at http://test/XXYY.cgi where XX and YY are Japanese
> characters.  The form itself is written in EUC-JP encoding.
>
> I was expecting this option would affect how one of both of the URL path
> (XXYY.cgi) and the search-strings (?key=value) is turned into the
> hexadeciaml encoding.
>
> But my experiment result is that regardless of the option setting, IE 7
> interprets the URL path as UTF-8 and the search-strings as EUC-JP (the
> form's encoding), and generrates the %hh%hh... hex escapes.
>
> (Note: There is a recnet IE bug that relates to UTF-8 option:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/935729
> but what I see is different because I didn't use frames.)
>
> I am puzzled.
>
>   

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Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:09:33 UTC