how Windows browsers encode URL [Re: why the % cruft?]

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:37 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> So, it seems it's rather safe to encode URL to UTF8, as it's common pratice
> and acepted not only by MS IE, but by Mozilla aswell.

There must be more to it, why else does Netscape / MSIE send "ie=UTFF-8" 
instead of "ie=ISO-8859-1"? The page that I get contains "ie=ISO-8859-1". 
Should we change that value when we send the URL in utf8 format as part of 
some secret handshake? 

Cheers,
Waldo
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