why the % cruft?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

As I asked Waldo in a private email - could there be an option added to either 
select ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 please (or any other encoding as long as it's 8 
bit)? 

Thanks,
Hetz

On Monday 08 July 2002 23:10, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Jul 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I don't know. The web-page is in ISO-8859-1 so we send in that encoding.
> > We can send in utf-8 but I doubt that will work if the webserver expects
> > iso-8859-1. Since google adds "ie=ISO-8859-1" itself I strongly suspect
> > that it expects to receive iso-8859-1. We can't send utf-16 because HTTP
> > is a 8-bit protocol, not 16-bit.
>
> I've seen google already switching to utf-8 in konqueror, but after some
> more kdelibs updates its now latin-1 again.
>
>
> Dirk