> In wsgix I use utf-8 for decoding the QUERY_STRING, and the charset > specified in the POST'ed data (utf-8 or the charset found in the special > _charset_ field).
That's probably wrong. We went through this recently on the python-dev list. While it's possible to tell the encoding of multipart/form-data, the query_string and x-www-form-urlencoded data may be in arbitary character set encodings (see RFC 3986). It's probably best to not try to map them to strings; instead, return byte arrays for the value, and only return strings for data that can be correctly decoded. Otherwise, you lose information that the app cannot recover. Bill _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
