On Sunday 03 March 2002 19:34, Tod Harter wrote:
> > Right.... apart from that tiny little nagging problem being that the
> > charset parameter on application/* is ILLEGAL.
>
> Perhaps... Anyway, the point is that "url-encoded" implies US-ASCII... Its
> common for user agents to ignore that, but since there is no mechanism for
> specifying the character set of a URL it is pretty much mandated. So if a
> form is REALLY URL encoded, then it must be ASCII, mustn't it?

It ought to be, except that url-encoding can in fact encode any 8bit charset, 
which means that it can also take most of the iso-8859-* family. A number of 
browsers have that misbehaviour.

> Well, I have yet to have a form submitted to me and I wasn't able to
> process it. Doubtless it has happened somewhere to someone, but I've built
> and deployed at a rough guess 40 web applications over the last 8 years.
> Maybe I'm just lucky ;o).

You're just lucky (or quite simply just working in english), it's happened to 
me many times over the past year.

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