On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 09:17, Toby Dickenson wrote: > On Saturday 28 Sep 2002 4:38 pm, Florent Guillaume wrote: > > <form action="foo" ... accept-charset="UTF-8"> > > ... > > </form> > > > > This instructs the browser it should send the content of the form in the > > accepted charset. > > Yes, accept-charset could be part of a full solution to this problem, but I > dont think it is a whole solution.... > > Are you suggesting that a method could assume its form submissions would > always be made in utf-8? That would cause problems if a submission was made > from: > * some other form that didnt have an accept-charset > * some non-browser code that synthesizes http requests
Yes, there is no good way. > A further problem is that we want this decoding to be performed in ZPublisher, > but that that point in the publishing process it doent know which method is > going to be called. That means the utf8 assumption cant be made independantly > for each method. > > One answer to this problem is when browsers include the charset attribute in > "multipart/form-data" POST requests. ZPublisher knows unambiguously what > encoding was used by the browser. This really sucks, you'd think that by 2002 all recent browsers would send a content-type:text/plain;charset=foobar in multipart/form-data, as the spec (from 1998) recommends... But even Mozilla 1.1 doesn't do it. > Sadly I cant see a nice way to do the same for GET requests As an aside, one interesting tidbit about Mozilla: if you paste Unicode into a field of a form without an explicit encoding (accept-charset or document-charset), it encodes Unicode characters into &#xxxx; and sends that on the wire. Anyway, in the near future I see no alternative to putting :utf8: into field names, and using accept-charset="UTF-8" or an utf-8 encoding for the document. Florent -- Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) +33 1 40 33 79 87 http://nuxeo.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
