Well, it's not like we're pushing a bytestream from the web browser to the database, or vice-versa. Everything is being read into memory as UTF, whether it starts as UTF-8 in the browser, or ISO-8859-1 in the database. As its read from one source or written to another, the character set is going to change.
My observation is that the current design; allowing every page to have its own charset, is beginning to feel like overkill, especially given that the solution has a number of frayed edges. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Massimo Lusetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
