Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Some interesting notes here (from Erik van der Poel at Google; Guido, you might want to stroll over to his location and talk with him):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2007JanMar/0004.html and more particularly http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2008AprJun/0092.html, which says, in part, ``Within the context of HTML and HTTP, queries [that is, the query part of a URL] don't have to say which charset they are using, because there is already an agreement in place: the major browsers and servers use the charset of the HTML.'' So, there's still a sizable number of Latin-1 pages out there, and queries against these pages will use that encoding in the URL's they send. And then there's this: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2008AprJun/0014.html _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3300> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com