I'm already coding it up, but I created a pre-change tag just in case it turns out to be a problem. I think this is the right approach.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Filip S. Adamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 on this one. > > -Filip > > On 2008-07-29 16:39, Howard Lewis Ship wrote: >> >> 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] >>> >>> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
