Re: Setting the encoding in the basic auth header

2007-06-11 Thread Siddharta .
On Jun 12, 11:20 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a further follow-up, see > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489 > Wow, thanks a lot for the link. Just had a look at it. The thread runs from 2000 to 2007!! 7 years!! What a complete mess :) Guess I'll just hav

Re: Setting the encoding in the basic auth header

2007-06-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 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? As a further follow-up, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489 They explain that *TEXT is defined in RFC 2616, which specifies that non-ASCII c

Re: Setting the encoding in the basic auth header

2007-06-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 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 th