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
> 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
> 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