From: "Tatsuhiko Miyagawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:59 PM
> > > CAVEATS
> > > This module (at least Apache::ACEProxy::RACE) assumes input domain
> > > names are encoded in UTF8. But currently it's known that:
> > >
> > > * MSIE's "always send URL as UTF8" preference does NOT ALWAYS send
> > > correct UTF8 string.
> >
> > This has come up on the dav-dev list. As far as MS DAV clients are concerned,
> > the User-Agent can be used to know whether or not it respects that setting.
> > Of course, in order to do proper conversion when it doesn't respect it you
> > still need to know the local encoding that it uses.
Note this issue appears very specifically to;
User-Agent: Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1
Which never observes the "Always send URL as UTF8" setting. Any further
observations are greatly appreciated
Bill
> In my environment, User-Agent: strings is always
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
>
> It seems to be independent with whether that setting is enables.
>
> The problem is, even if we enable the setting, MSIE sometimes sends
> corrupted UTF-8 string. In my environment, delimiting dots in
> domain names are corrupted as UTF-8.
