why the % cruft?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:01 am, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > URLs are spec'ed as a sequence of octets (8-bit values) "Unicode URLs"
> > basically don't exist. Despite that we try to handle them anyway and
> > appearantly that doesn't always work. (E.g. we need to convert unicode to
> > an 8 bit sequence before we can tranfer it to the website but the
> > encoding to use for that is unspecified, so we can only guess.)
>
> As Dirk already pointed out, IE sends URLS in utf8 by default. I'm pretty
> sure we could do the same without breaking a lot of web pages (they'd be
> broken with IE aswell). Maybe there's an HTTP header field we can set to
> indicate this?

My impression was that many non-latin1 (e.g. russian, japanese, korean, etc.) 
websites use the "local locale" as encoding and not utf8. Maybe Vadim can 
comment on that from the Russian point of view.

Cheers,
Waldo
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