On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> When I enter a Unicode character (Mozilla 0.9.9 nicely supports UTF-8
> cut&paste from xterm) into a bugzilla bug description, then the resulting
> web page shows these characters as human-readable numeric character
> references. Example:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135762
> 
> What exactly do the W3C standards say about how Unicode characters
> entered into form fields are supposed to be submitted by the HTTP
> client to the server.

This doesn't answer your question, but it's relevant: IE5 has an option
in its configuration, "always send URLs as UTF-8".  It defaults on.  I
don't know what it does when this is turned off, and I don't know if
either mode is standards-conformant.

-- 
Glenn Maynard
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