Hi, first of all: please describe undoubtly in the "Encode/Decode" window that all characters keyed in or pasted are UTF-8. This is very important if someon tries to copy&paste data from/to browsers which use UCS-2.
Said this, here're some oddities you'll stumble over: 1. in the Encode area type €uro (where the first character is the Euro currency sign) then use URL Encode and it correctly encodes to %E2%82%ACuro Now try to URL Decode, and you get \xe2\x82\xacuro Is this a bug or a feature? It's neither! But you need to know what w3af's en-/decoding does. Without that knowledge I'd classify it as bug. That's what most user would belief also, I assume. ==> See my initial paragraph: just tell the user what the used charset is, then all such questions are illegal ;-) ==> Otherwise implement "URL Decode (UTF-8)" which should return €uro again. 2. same problem as 1. applies to Base64 Encode and then Base64 Decode 3. in the Decode area type €uro then HTML unescape and you get \xe2\x82\xacuro Similar problem as 1. above. But I'd consider this a bug in w3af. Same applies to €uro 4. in the Encode area type €uro then HTML Escape it and you get €uro This is a bug too. 5. UTF-8 Encoding return the same as URL Encoding Do I miss something here? Otherwise I'd rename UTF-8 Encoding to UTF-8 Encoding (URL). 6. Microsoft %U Encoding for €uro returns %UE282AC%U0075%U0072%U006F I'm not sure if %UE282AC is really accepted by Micro$oft. Can someone please check. 7. MySQL Encoding and MSSQL Encoding use Euro again as string, I doubt that the result is correct. Sorry for being that pedantic;-) Achim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop