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

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Ahhm,

It's definately not only google. It's tons of Israeli and Arabic web sites who 
uses UTF8 encoding to specify various parameters on the URL (like hebrew 
name).

Hetz

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 21:27, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:40 am, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Thats a nice solution, but not good politically...
> >
> > See, I want web masters to know that I am using Konqueror to browse their
> > site - they see the logs.
> >
> > With MSIE as a user agent - it's just adding up as another MSIE is
> > viewing the text.
> >
> > Waldo, could you add a simple check-box to enable UTF-8 sending instead
> > of ISO8859-1 please?
>
> You mean a "hack for google that probably doesn't work anywhere else"? No
> thanks. Better mail google and tell them that konqueror supports utf-8.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo