John-Mark Bell  wrote:

>> I think this is a NetSurf feature rather than Google's as on Linux
>> Firefox Google accepts the accents. And FWIW NetSurf has always
>> behaved this way.

> No. This is a bug in Google Translate. It serves the page to NetSurf in
> the ISO-8859-1 character set. NetSurf then submits your data in this
> character set, encoding the O-acute correctly. This then fails to be
> interpreted correctly by the server. The reason it works in Firefox, is
> that Google serve the page in the UTF-8 character set to that browser.

Ok, thanks, but that raises the question of why Google should serve 
NetSurf with ISO-8859-1 pages rather than UTF-8?

John

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