[Bug 1833] Wrong ISO-8859-1 enconding behaviour on "Direct input"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1833





------- Additional Comments From bjoern@hoehrmann.de  2005-10-20 20:03 -------
I don't think this will affect many users. First please note that file upload 
and validating by web site address weren't equivalent in this regard. Second, 
the result will only be different if the document the user might paste, upload 
or validate by address does not correctly declare the character encoding, or if 
there are browser / system bugs on the user's client machine. I don't think 
this will be very common, and even if, there is little we can do about it, all 
we've done here is to align the Validator with the technical reality, having a 
choice for encoding for textarea validation did not work before, it was just a 
way to cause the Validator to produce incorrect or misleading results.

Octets versus Bytes and HTML and Form I18N are indeed complex and sometimes 
confusing topics, but that's not really our fault...

Received on Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:03:15 UTC