> When I enter character \xf1 as the username which is outside ascii but > within iso-8859-1 > > Firefox 2.0 sends this as \xf1 > IE 7 also sends this as \xf1 > But the utf-8 encoding is \xc3\xb1 > > If I enter character 0BA4 (TAMIL LETTER TA) which is outside > iso-8859-1 > > Firefox 2 sends this as \xa4 (seems to drop the high byte) > IE 7 sends this as ? > > It seems that both browsers are using the iso-8859-1 charset. Is there > any way I can get them to encode the data with utf-8 instead?
Looking at your results, the answer seems to be "no". They don't use Latin-1, instead, they use Unicode and just drop the row byte, sending only the cell byte (independent on whether the input was Latin-1). RFC 2617 specifies userid as *TEXT, without ever specifying what TEXT is. Most likely, the authors of that specification did not consider encodings. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
