OK, that makes sense. I've never really verified that either but I can't think how else it would work, the browser has to pick SOME encoding after all and it might as well be the one the server seems to prefer! Personally I just think browsers sometimes 'get it wrong' when you paste data into forms.
On Thursday 27 November 2003 10:19 pm, Steve Willer wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Tod Harter wrote: > > What would I fix? I have no control over the encodings used by Open > > Office or the clipboard or for that matter the browser either... That is > > to say the browser sent me some kaka and called it ISO-8859-1, but it > > lied. I guess I could just not believe what the browser is telling me, > > but then I am still left trying to figure what I DID get and convert it > > back to something else. > > I guess I'm just saying that if your page with the form says "I am utf-8", > then all browsers except ns4.7 have submitted utf-8 back on the form > submit. I don't check the content-type of the response to see the charset; > I just assume it's what I gave them. > > When I get a free moment, I'll double-check that it works this way, but > I'm pretty sure it did last I checked. -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain http://www.giantelectronicbrain.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
