> This POV is way too browser-centric...
>
This is but one example. Note that I found web forms to be the least
clear-cut example of choosing an encoding. Most of the time applications
seem to be using UTF-8, and all the standards I have read are moving towards
specifying UTF-8 (from being unspeci
* Matt Giuca wrote:
> Well from what I've seen, the only time Latin-1 naturally appears on the
> net is when you have a web page in Latin-1 (either explicit or inferred;
> and note that a browser like Firefox will infer Latin-1 if it sees only
> ASCII characters) with a form in it. Submitting the
Thanks for all the replies, and making me feel welcome :)
>
> If what you are saying is true, then it can probably go in as a bug
> fix (unless someone else knows something about Latin-1 on the Net that
> makes this not true).
>
Well from what I've seen, the only time Latin-1 naturally appears on
> Very nice, I had this somewhere on my todo list to work on. I'm very much
> in favour, especially since it synchronizes us with the RFCs (for all I
> remember reading about it last time).
I still think that it doesn't. The RFCs haven't changed, and can't
change for compatibility reasons. The enc
-On [20080712 19:27], Matt Giuca ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Basically, urllib.quote and unquote seem not to have been updated since Python
>2.5, and because of this they implicitly perform Latin-1 encoding and decoding
>(with respect to percent-encoded characters). I think they should d
> Basically, urllib.quote and unquote seem not to have been updated since
> Python 2.5, and because of this they implicitly perform Latin-1 encoding and
> decoding (with respect to percent-encoded characters). I think they should
> default to UTF-8 for a number of reasons, including that's what oth
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Matt Giuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My first post to the list. In fact, first time Python hacker, long-time
> Python user though. (Melbourne, Australia).
>
Welcome!
> Some of you may have seen for the past week or so my bug report on Roundup,
> ht
Hi all,
My first post to the list. In fact, first time Python hacker, long-time
Python user though. (Melbourne, Australia).
Some of you may have seen for the past week or so my bug report on Roundup,
http://bugs.python.org/issue3300
I've spent a heap of effort on this patch now so I'd really lik
Josiah Carlson wrote:
> This doesn't need to be an interpreter thing; it's easy to implement
> by the user (I've done it about a dozen times using a single global
> flag). If you want it to be automatic, it's even possible to make it
> happen automatically using sys.settrace() and friends (you can
