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.
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