Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Edward H. Trager wrote: > Given the maturity of support for Unicode in the various relevant > technologies(web servers, web browsers, XML, Javascript, Java, etc...) > and the global nature of the marketplace, it seems to me that it is > high time that web servers default to serving UTF-8 instead

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Edward H. Trager
On Tuesday 2004.01.13 09:48:56 -0800, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: > German characters not correct in output webformHi Bert, > > This is a common problem. > > When you do a form submit (POST or GET of data to the server), the browser encodes > the characters being sent using the character encod

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Edward H. Trager
On Tuesday 2004.01.13 09:48:56 -0800, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: > German characters not correct in output webformHi Bert, > > This is a common problem. > > When you do a form submit (POST or GET of data to the server), the browser encodes > the characters being sent using the character encod

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 14/01/2004 06:59, Philippe Verdy wrote: Yahoo! Groups : aramaic Post MessageFrom: Peter Kirk Well, attached is a Yahoo groups form (saved by my browser) similar to the one which caused me problems. The "Reply" form in Yahoo Groups is coded in "windows-1252". ... I am confused. It doe

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
Yahoo! Groups : aramaic Post MessageFrom: Peter Kirk > Well, attached is a Yahoo groups form (saved by my browser) similar to > the one which caused me problems. The "Reply" form in Yahoo Groups is coded in "windows-1252". It uses the following form declaration: If it had not indicated a value

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 14/01/2004 05:42, Philippe Verdy wrote: ... Can you exhibit the URL of your entry form or a HTML snapshot of your form page? It may reveal if it's a problem in the HTML page itself, which does allow prefeeding an entry form with characters that won't be mapped correctly with the specified form

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 13/01/2004 15:59, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ... > > > >>Is this actually true? Other characters can be entered into an > >>ISO-8859-1 form in the format "&#nnn;"; or at least Mozilla 1.5 uses > >>this fo

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 13/01/2004 15:59, Philippe Verdy wrote: From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Is this actually true? Other characters can be entered into an ISO-8859-1 form in the format "&#nnn;"; or at least Mozilla 1.5 uses this format. I suspect this is what happened to me recently when I typed a s

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Markus Scherer
Philippe Verdy wrote: But your claim that a browser would send form data containing numeric character references is wrong here: it violates the format needed for forms submitted by "GET" method (should be UTF-8 unless something else is specified or the HTML form is not encoded with UTF-8, and then

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 13/01/2004 13:35, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > ... > > > >If your form page uses ISO-8859-1, then specify explicitly the ISO-8859-1 > >encoding as the one to use for submitting forms, as an explicit attribute of > >your element. But then visitors won't be

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Peter Kirk
On 13/01/2004 13:35, Philippe Verdy wrote: ... If your form page uses ISO-8859-1, then specify explicitly the ISO-8859-1 encoding as the one to use for submitting forms, as an explicit attribute of your element. But then visitors won't be able to send other characters than ISO-8859-1 in their fo

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
German characters not correct in output webformAddison Phillips [wM] wrote: > When you do a form submit (POST or GET of data to the server), > the browser encodes the characters being sent using the character > encoding that the page uses. Not necessarily: the HTML form can specify the encoding th

RE: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
Title: German characters not correct in output webform ï Hi Bert,   This is a common problem.   When you do a form submit (POST or GET of data to the server), the browser encodes the characters being sent using the character encoding that the page uses. In your case, from the examples you sent

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Markus Scherer
Bert Kemner wrote: I've a problem with a Javascript form on a german website. (http://informationservices.swets.de/web/show/id=47553) My IE browser says that this page is in UTF-8. Therefore, you can expect to get the form data back to the server in UTF-8 as well. The input of the form contain

Re: German characters not correct in output webform

2004-01-13 Thread Doug Ewell
German characters not correct in output webformBert Kemner wrote: > I've a problem with a Javascript form on a german website. > (http://informationservices.swets.de/web/show/id=47553) > The input of the form contains german characters. > But the output (which is generated by submitting the form)