On 20 May 2022 as I do recall, John-Mark Bell wrote: > Additionally, note that the character encoding used to submit forms on > websites is determined from the web site itself (and has nothing to do > with whatever settings apply to the OS on which the browser is running). > In the case of Google, the search page they serve to NetSurf does not > specify a charset to use for form submission, so the encoding of the web > page will be used. Page -> Info will tell you that this is ISO-8859-1 > (i.e. Latin 1), which is not able to represent Russian, thus you will > find that attempting to search Google for Russian text will end up with > NetSurf submitting a load of question marks, instead. Other search > engines (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Yahoo) work fine as NetSurf is able to submit > UTF-8 encoded text to those (and thus Russian is representable). >
I wondered if using www.google.ru would work (on the assumption that this page presumably expects Russian input), but it doesn't. (Page Info gives "windows-1251", but the search result page returned then shows up as ISO-8859-1 again) And clicking on "Google offered in: russkiy" (in the absence of any ability to submit Cyrillic in e-mail!) at the bottom of the page gives an error; doing the same thing on google.de, for example, does successfully switch the page over into searching in German. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. _______________________________________________ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org