see the section on negotiation in this as well: http://www.xencraft.com/training/webstandards.html
Tex Texin Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:06 AM > To: Andrei Zmievski > Cc: Makoto Tozawa; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP > Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Unicode support design document > > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > I took a closer look at this today and RFC 2616 does not specify > > whether user agents are supposed to send a charset parameter in the > > Content-Type header of the POST request. I did not see any of my > > browsers doing so. I think we can safely disregard this and rely on > > http_input_encoding and output_encoding settings. We are > not going to > > use Accept-Charset for the reasons you mention. > > I don't know if this is useful, but Sam Ruby did a bunch of > digging into HTTP/HTML/XML encodings and precedence rules. > See this presentation -- Slides 72 - 75. (Note link below > starts at slide 72.) > > http://intertwingly.net/slides/2005/etcon/72.html > > If possible, I would prefer not to assume that we only need > to follow the behavior of popular user agents. > > Someone could be using PHP as a web service server and have > people write client scripts submitting all kinds of POST data > that needs to be processed correctly. In an ideal world > (heh), PHP would handle all of those scripts as long as they > followed the specifications. > > -adam > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trachtenberg.com > author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" > avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today! > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php