On 1/6/2011 7:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Glenn Linderman writes:
> On 1/6/2011 3:50 PM, And Clover wrote:
> > ISO-8859-1 is the encoding specified by the HTTP RFC
>
> Please could I have the reference to that specification?
RFC 2616 (probably obsolete by now, but IRC ISO 8859/1 is already
there IIRC), and I don't think UTF-8 is the default for anything until
you get to XHTML (and maybe HTML5).
Thanks.
Looking back, it is 2068 and 1945 also, I just had a mental blind spot,
thinking I understood the header formats from email-land, where they are
more required to be ASCII, as mentioned in my reply to James.
UTF-8 is the default for FORM DATA when using multipart/form-data
encoding, using the POST method. Otherwise, it FORM DATA is limited to
ASCII. Per http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1
which is HTML 4.01 (and maybe earlier, but I didn't go back further).
Nice to quote chapter and verse (or link) when declaring that something
is in a standard.
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