On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Tod Harter wrote: > Well, try this, paste data from a MS Word document into a text area and submit > it. Make sure you have some nice apostrophe's or some non-english characters > in there. UTF-8 away! I guarantee you it will be corrupt. I never tracked > down why exactly, but the notion that browsers always submit form data > properly SEEMS to be untrue. > > Specifically as near as I got to figuring out the problem the page was served > up as ISO-8859-1. The text pasted into the textarea was UTF-8 (though there > is no way to determine what the clipboard might have done to the encoding). > The result was gobbledygook. That is to say the browser submitted a response > which it claimed was coded with the ISO-8859-1 character set. Everything in > the textarea HAD an ISO-8859-1 representation. The data in that textarea sure > wasn't ISO-8859-1 when it got to the server!
Okay, so definitely fix your encoding. Make sure it's declared in the http headers as being utf-8. I'm surprised AxKit isn't doing this for you; I've been out of the loop for a while. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
