Whoops I forgot the link to the page that has the accept charset of UTF-8. You can find it here:
http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test On Jul 1, 12:10 pm, "Jeff S (Google)" <j...@google.com> wrote: > Hi omr, > > Thanks for pointing this out and sorry for the delay. I looked at this > initially but didn't work out a test case, now I have. > > Here's a page with Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 and no > accept-charset on the form > > http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test2 > > And here is one with the same content type but it uses accept- > charset="UTF-8" on the form. > > I tested these two pages with the following query string: > > ローマ字入力 > > I started with Chrome which gave the following URLs as expected: > > (no > accept-charset)http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test2?q=%26%2312525;%26%23... > > (with > accept-charset)http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test?q=%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%... > > Then I tried in IE6 > > (no > accept-charset)http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test2?q=%83%8D%81%5B%83%7D... > > (with > accept-charset)http://jscudtest.appspot.com/form_encoding_test?q=%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%... > > Note that the second URL, which is the page that has accept-charset is > fine. From the report on Stack Overflow it sounded like accept-charset > does work for IE6 if the charset is UTF-8, which is the only one we > will be using for this example. > > Excellent question! > > Happy coding, > > Jeff > > On Jun 18, 4:25 am, omr <omr99...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On April 26, Jeff S. wrote: > > > > ... I've fixed the [character encoding] issues and > > > went with accept-encoding on the form itself since that > > > should work even if the HTML is in a different character encoding. > > > I've belatedly learned that Internet Explorer may not apply the > > encoding specified in a form's accept-charset attribute. > > > Please test your example search page in IE8 (in either normal mode or > > compatibility mode); enter any query containing extended characters, > > and observe that the query value's encoding is *not* UTF-8 (unless the > > browser was already set to use UTF-8 encoding for the search page). > > > . > > > See also this discussion: > > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153527/setting-the-character-encod... > > > -- omr > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to google-ajax-search-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-ajax-search-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
