RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] RFC: Error handling in HTTP input decoding
| From: | Jared Williams | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:32:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] RFC: Error handling in HTTP input decoding | ||
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> P.S. - Has anyone considered offering up an RFC to IETF or
> W3C about adding
> a header to the spec? Or just asking the nice Firefox folks
> to blaze the
> trail with an X-header? PHP can't be the only web-language
> dealing with
> this issue.
W3 standard is to have the charset parameter on the Content-Type header.
Unfortunately this breaks too much server side software, so no UserAgents do
it.
Hence the _charset_ kludge Microsoft introduced awhile back, and Firefox and
Opera (afaik) have now adopted.
Jared