On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:04:38AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-05 21:40]: > > <form> tags should have accept-charset > > Browsers tend to ignore that and send the form data in the same > encoding as the page that the form was on.
"Browsers" is a bit general. Yes, IE will use the HTTP Content-Type header over accpet-charset in the <form> tag (and over any <meta> tag as well). Firefox 2 will use accept-charset (even if its different from the HTTP charset). So, it's good to have an accept-charset and make sure it matches the page's Content-Type charset. At least, that's how I remember it. > other screwy things. Overall this is an area of much hatefulness. > For best results, <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Encode::HEBCI> > is the way to go. But most of the time it’s overkill, since once > you get your pages to be served as UTF-8 properly, you can pretty > much forget the issue. That's what I do -- I set the Content-Type, meta http-equiv, and accept-charset on the form all to utf-8. Any browser that screws that up likely isn't supported in other ways, too. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
