why the % cruft?

[Dirk Mueller]

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.

FYI Microsoft IE uses utf-8 for urls (there is a checkbox in the advanced 
configuration tab, enabled by default). I doubt that there are many pages 
that don't work with IE. 


Dirk