RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] RFC: Error handling in HTTP input decoding
| From: | Jared Williams | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:50:32 +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.
>
Forgot to add that _charset_ has found its way into the Web Forms 2.0 working
draft too.
http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-charset
Jared