>> Interesting !!! >> So POST and GET data, when sent to a host, are not unicode ? > > They are not sent as UTF-16 Unicode, correct. > >> And so what I provide to the component when I do a GET, in unicode, is >> converted in the component to something else (UTF 8 ?) > > Yes, in V7 a GET request is converted to UTF-8 first the URL-encoded, > so the component user must not care about the encoding (see functions > UrlEncode/UrlDecode in OverbyteIcsUrl.pas), in V5 and V6 the AnsiString > with current system code page was URL-encoded as is.
I converted to UTF before POSTing and was successful. Next I tried a special character "ù", because in UTF8 this codepoint is made up from 2 bytes. This failed, and the POSTed data, appears to contain 2 strange characters instead of the sent "ù" When I converted to AnsiString "ù" was sent OK, *but* in my code page this is of course available and a single byte. So I wondered if UTF8 actually works but ... based on what you said ... read further ... > With POST requests however the send stream is sent as is and the > component user is responsible to format and encode the stream content > properly. Posted data may, for example, contain multple parts all with > a different Charset and Content-Transfer-Encoding part-header. So I suppose that if I want to send UTF8 I need to put a header before the data first ? Do you know what this header should be for UTF8 ? Is there an ICS function for it ? Should I URL encode the POST data as well ? Is there an ICS function for it ? Do you URL encode the Unicode string then convert to UTF8 or vica versa ? > The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively > Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html I also read these and can suggest them: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/38437 http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/38498 http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/38693 http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/images/38980/Delphi_and_Unicode.pdf -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
