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On 3/16/2009 6:59 PM, André Warnier wrote: > The real fix would be HTTP 1.2, specifying once and for all that the > default encoding for query parameters is Unicode/UTF-8 Yes. Given that HTTP/1.1 clients should include Content-Type yet don't, how long do you think adoption of HTTP/1.2 will take? ;) > I fail to understand why the powers-that-be did not reach that > conclusion several years ago already. Because it was the swingin' '90s, baby! Honestly, I'm very surprised that CERN, being located in a country with so many languages, was content to stick with ISO-8859-1. > This being an English-speaking list, I also assume that whatever time is > seen here being spent discussing it, is only a biased view of the > overall situation. Yup. I can tell you that in the US, non-ASCII characters are usually an afterthought. I've seen many sites that don't accept (or don't properly handle) anything but [a-zA-Z0-9]. :( > Since the Apache CON Europe is upcoming, and since I'm planning to > attend, I wonder if a bit of stirring up matters there would help. Go to MozillaCON or OperaCON or something. Drop a huge metal W3C on Microsoft's front lawn (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html). /That's/ where you need to complain; it's the browsers that are very conservative, which makes sense given that it will take a while for everyone on the planet to upgrade to HTTP/1.2-compatible server software. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkm++X8ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC3hACeNdLiXAdi9hQQ/ZNtToispZ9T G8AAn1E2trLhbvIS+g1ULmlDcmoNNa4B =UuI/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
