On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here's a question.  I'm still struggling with getting Tapestry to do
> the right encoding when producing output, and to set the response
> encoding to the correct value before reading query parameters.
>
> There's lots of edge cases, related to Ajax, to form uploads, and to
> complex components, such as BeanEditForm, where content may be
> gathered from multiple pages.
>
> What if there was just a single default application character set,
> which would default to UTF-8?  This is pretty much what people are
> doing with the UTF-8 RequestHandler filter.
>
> This would simplify a bunch of stuff, since output encoding would
> always be the same, as would request encoding.  We could get rid of
> the some of the meta-data as well.
>
> Is UTF-8 sufficiently well supported by browsers?  Is this an option
> that works for Big5 Chinese and other non-Western language locales?

Howard, how this would fit with existing DB and/or other data sources
(files for example) already encoded as ISO-8859-1 ?


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Massimo
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