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 ? -- Massimo http://meridio.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]