Character encoding

[Peter]

Hi everybody

I have a webpage with two forms on it. The reciever of the data from
Form1 wants the encoding to be UTF-8 while the receiver of Form2 wants
it in iso-8859-1. Is there a way to tell the browser to send forms in
a different encoding than the encoding of the html document?

/ Peter

[Kris]

Re: Character encoding

In article <fbd48700.03092 70139.77356fbc@ posting.google. com>,
paagaard@hotmai l.com (Peter) wrote:
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> I have a webpage with two forms on it. The reciever of the data from
> Form1 wants the encoding to be UTF-8 while the receiver of Form2 wants
> it in iso-8859-1. Is there a way to tell the browser to send forms in
> a different encoding than the encoding of the html document?[/color]

I am not absolutely sure, but that sounds like a job for the
accept-charset attribute (on FORM).

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset>

--
Kris
kristiaan@xs4al l.netherlands (nl)
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us" said the Mock Turtle.

[Peter]

Re: Character encoding

> I am not absolutely sure, but that sounds like a job for the[color=blue]
> accept-charset attribute (on FORM).[/color]
Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately it didnt work :-(
I might add that I am using the GET method to send the data and the
webpage is in UTF-8 encoding. When I try to use a special character
from the iso-8859-1 charset it gets url encoded to its UTF-8
representations (two characters) instead of iso-8859-1s (only one
character).

/Peter

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Character encoding

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Peter wrote:
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> I have a webpage with two forms on it. The reciever of the data from
> Form1 wants the encoding to be UTF-8 while the receiver of Form2 wants
> it in iso-8859-1.[/color]

I'm afraid that you'll first need to read my notes at

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html

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> Is there a way to tell the browser to send forms in
> a different encoding than the encoding of the html document?[/color]

In theory, yes. In practice, not really. It's hard enough to cope
with what browsers do anyway, without putting extra constraints on
them in the way that you're suggesting.

I'd have to recommend writing some kind of wrapper script to
homogenize the input to whatever their misguided scripts are hoping to
get. Perl has some pretty powerful magic for doing that kind of
thing: however, I haven't myself tried doing what you would need for
this in detail, so I'm afraid the advice from me is rather general.
Certainly the answer is going to be far removed from simply "authoring
HTML"; depending on which aspects you'd encounter problems with, I'd
refer you to comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.cgi (automoderated, check
its posting guidelines) or to whichever ofcomp.lang.per l.(misc|modules )
seems more relevant to the specific problem.