From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 17:59:05 EST
On 13/01/2004 13:35, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> ...
>
>If your form page uses ISO-8859-1, then specify explicitly the ISO-8859-1
>encoding as the one to use for submitting forms, as an explicit attribute of
>your <form> element. But then visitors won't be able to send other
>characters
>than ISO-8859-1 in their form data, whever the form method is GET with
>URL-encoding, or POST in standard form-data format.
>
>
Is this actually true? Other characters can be entered into an
ISO-8859-1 form in the format "&#nnn;"; or at least Mozilla 1.5 uses
this format. I suspect this is what happened to me recently when I typed
a schwa into a message in the webmail interface of a Yahoo group, and
this appeared in my mail received from the group as "ə" - because
the message source contained "&#601;". The problem seems to be that
the process reading the form data was not expecting this format and so
took the & as a literal rather than as an escape.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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