[tlug] Re: WWWJDIC backdoor issue

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Jim Breen writes:

 > there's nothing in the HTML standards to set a form-input-coding.

Will wonders never cease!

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset

This concept goes back to RFC 1867.

 > I wish there was a single standard [for the selection].   8-)}

This is in some version of the DOM spec, but I don't recall which one
(possibly unpublished).