Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AMB> By not decoding the URL you get a set of hex characters that matches > AMB> exactly what would appear in the URL bar of your browser. > > But what about lynx and w3m? The user can only see the % stuff there, no?
I don't see that there should be a difference here for these browsers. If you do a Google search for "wwwoffle" (with the quotes as part of the search) then you get sent to the following URL (details vary, but this is what I get): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22wwwoffle%22&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&sa=Search+Google&meta= The quote characters from the search string show up as %22 in the URL. When WWWOFFLE displays a URL on a web page it normally decodes the URL to make it look pretty. This means that the URL shows up on the page as: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="wwwoffle"&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&sa=Search+Google&meta= By not decoding the URL the web page would show exactly the same as the first URL above, the one with the %22 in it. This will show up exactly the same in all web browsers. What you are having a problem with is URLs where the text of the search string (for example) is not ASCII text like "wwwoffle" in the example, but is UTF-8 text. When WWWOFFLE decodes the URL to display it you get the correct characters only if the page has the correct (i.e. UTF-8) charset. Different browsers work differently in this case, but if WWWOFFLE didn't decode the URL then all browsers would work the same and you would see lots of %XX character strings. > AMB> The pages that need charsets already have one assigned by their > AMB> author. I cannot override that with a user option or it would break > AMB> those pages. > > I am only talking about WWWOFFLE's own http://localhost:8080/index/* So am I, these pages already have a charset defined (if you are using the Polish or Russian translated versions). -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
