RE: UTF-7 - is it dead?

From: Addison Phillips (addison@yahoo-inc.com)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:04:29 CDT

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    > My test page was
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JRW_test/message/6 . It used
    > to display properly if I chose UTF-7 in Firefox. However,
    > something has
    > changed and now I can no longer get the posted text to be
    > intepreted as
    > UTF-7. It works fine as UTF-7 if I cut and paste the posting
    > it into a text
    > file, but the UTF-7 trick no longer works on the post as
    > accessed from Yahoo
    > groups.

    ... because we fixed a bug! Submitted content could cause pages to be
    interpreted as UTF-7. If you look at the source for that page you'll see
    that the plus symbols have been converted to HTML numeric entities and
    that's why your sample doesn't work--in any browser: because it isn't UTF-7
    anymore.

    Addison

    Addison Phillips
    Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.

    Internationalization is an architecture.
    It is not a feature.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham
    > Sent: 2006?6?3? 4:17
    > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: UTF-7 - is it dead?
    >
    > Markus Scherer wrote on Friday, June 02, 2006 at 10:12 PM
    >
    > > On 6/2/06, Richard Wordingham
    > <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> wrote:
    > >> ... you have to read it using a
    > >> browser that supports UTF-7! Firefox supports it but IE
    > 6.0 does not.
    > >
    > > Yes it does, I just tried it. I copied & saved the sample text from
    > > appendix A from RFC 2152 as a .txt file and viewed it with
    > IE 6, Opera
    > > 8.54, and Firefox 1.5. With IE, I selected
    > View/Encoding/Auto-Select.
    > > With the others, I chose UTF-7 explicitly.
    >
    > My test page was
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JRW_test/message/6 . It used
    > to display properly if I chose UTF-7 in Firefox. However,
    > something has
    > changed and now I can no longer get the posted text to be
    > intepreted as
    > UTF-7. It works fine as UTF-7 if I cut and paste the posting
    > it into a text
    > file, but the UTF-7 trick no longer works on the post as
    > accessed from Yahoo
    > groups.
    >
    > Richard.
    >
    >
    >

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