-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Shanti,
On 6/26/13 11:00 AM, Shanti Suresh wrote: > Hi Chris, > > This is such an interesting discussion. I am not sure what to make > of this person's comment: > > ------------------- TAXI 2012-10-09 09:03:59 PDT > > Wow, no fix since 8 years... > > And this is a real bug: If the HTTP header says the file is encoded > in ISO-8859-1 the common way to override this with HTML is: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=utf-8"> > > Firefox reads the body in UTF-8 then, which is fine, but the > charset used in forms is still ISO-8859-1, so you have to add > accept-charset="utf-8" to the form just for firefox (other browser > automatically use UTF-8 or send the charset with the > content-type). > > So: Why the hell is nobody fixing this bug? --------------- > > > So the questions I have are: (1) Firefox is not properly sending > UTF-8 in the POST request even if it reads the HTML page in UTF-8? > And other browsers are now sending "charset=utf-8" based on the the > HTML META tag? This is just a convention: it's not defined by the spec. One could argue that META should override HEADER, but the spec says the opposite, actually. > (2) Firefox has started respecting the accept-charset="utf-8" > attribute in forms now such that it adds charset to the > Content-Type header of the POST request? I'm confused. I thought > Mozilla was not going to fix this issue. No, browsers will use accept-charset as the charset they use to encode the POST request. The will still not likely add the charset attribute to the Content-Type header, because the spec says not to do so. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRy0i2AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYUfEQAKpBWbhF6sDKY1uA6v7HgqQ3 eRbANUtnknEPiOscJqjMcW8ZWdKJl1mucvKigPNXwJMYpTe3Q/c3r8RjVLV9TqtC jgtWwxlS/GF3W8gO9BuLKva59dTbQtE+xyG12nNCJyxMHPow7WJWUIo4KVB4t0IB vCTXwQT65DxMXZGwRMoc6eFI9idu5M0t1Luj+wnf5PxqV338WoZDx4N7QrSKS3Cj z8S1OeA6uEqPHjSotl4Y7jgRBSSutP4AOwdnFjhBU81JWIZOl5+oaIemFcZgTcwm 0ZlcKThYud+BcH10mPv3nCieUSj1LHo6deEcCYMoNi3sEfSKlfvCW3XsQJI2T7xk 3jj+OplKqhYd8oMhg3sy7M2D25IenG0LJxnCADZutVhQ7U+qO3xKMeovymffNeXn rLOLlxliUiZ0EhPpQSqbtloAOvO/klyECdZlHlILSkFFtMmiQf6yDYtXQLAQfgqK o4/OAD9M7IqMLITmF4sUdt1fXfBjU7g/02tqmJWOP479XWbvqYHESG81XD6dR+PR mFQu+gpIMAZJpIGcVWwMKvG7hMKP9jeNRBp+w5yOBj2BPg9s8Z6vBaonXVMAFN5c VPzows5r1tx6YqKJkfEVpbswzRU4rx8HJHZUpYYBDpUhRztCQhcsFqKRj0d754cV l9hb19ydVgu1Iz0ztsFZ =MUYp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
