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Posted by David Winter on October 29, 2004, 3:32 pm
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If I set up a form and have an ASP script process the users's input,
which component defines the character set of that input?
- His browser/OS?
- The encoding attribute in the doctype declaration?
- The charset attribute in the content-type meta tag?
- The script processing the form?
- ..?
TIA.
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Posted by Leif K-Brooks on October 29, 2004, 9:46 pm
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David Winter wrote:
> If I set up a form and have an ASP script process the users's input,
> which component defines the character set of that input?
>
> - His browser/OS?
> - The encoding attribute in the doctype declaration?
> - The charset attribute in the content-type meta tag?
> - The script processing the form?
> - ..?
The browser will decide the encoding sent to the server. It may delegate
the authority to the OS, or decide based on the encoding that the
document uses. The library you use to handle HTTP on the server side may
also re-encode what the browser sends.
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Posted by DU on October 29, 2004, 9:56 pm
Please log in for more thread options David Winter wrote:
> If I set up a form and have an ASP script process the users's input,
> which component defines the character set of that input?
>
> - His browser/OS?
> - The encoding attribute in the doctype declaration?
There is no attribute encoding in the doctype declaration.
> - The charset attribute in the content-type meta tag?
> - The script processing the form?
> - ..?
>
> TIA.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset
DU
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Mozilla 1.7.3 :)
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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on October 30, 2004, 8:16 am
Please log in for more thread options wintermute_101_nospam@yahoo.de (David Winter) wrote:
> If I set up a form and have an ASP script process the users's input,
> which component defines the character set of that input?
A very complex issue. Normally the encoding ("character set") is the same
as the encoding of the page containing the form.
I'd suggest starting from "FORM submission and i18n",
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html
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