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

[Germain Garand]

Le Mardi 09 Juillet 2002 18:41, Waldo Bastian a écrit :
> 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".

having made some tests with testkhtml, it seems that the  Accept-Charset is 
never set according to the current encoding... it is always :

kio_http: (3071) Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5

must be that...


G.