Re: [tlug] font encoding question

[steve smith <sjs@example.com>]

Brian Chandler wrote:
> steven smith wrote:
>
> But how will you know what the encoding is?
Agreed, but it looks like jcode.pm will still be useful.
> Actually I believe it is simpler than this. If you have a webpage 
> encoded in UTF-8, you can (*) assume that the browser will return form 
> input values in the same encoding.
Are you sure?  From the discussion that's been going on in 
the "WWWJDIC backdoor issue" thread, I'm not sure it's that 
simple.  This isn't quite the same since I'll be serving a 
form, but...  somehow assuming always seems to get me in 
trouble.  If someone can verify that a page will return text 
in the font it has been encoded in, I'd be delighted.  I'm 
still trying to wrap my mind around font-encoding and the 
issues involved.

In any event, in the "backdoor" thread Stephen Turnbull 
pointed out this link:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset
so assuming that the browser pays attention, I plan on using 
both your suggestion, Stephen's, and then praying for the 
best :)

Like they said in that thread, one standard would be nice 
(though the context was a bit different).  I have to make 
sure everything I send to friends in Japan is in ISO-2022 or 
they see æååã, but most of the rest of the world (and I 
think this list usually) is utf-8.  And then there's 
ISO-8859.  For me, font encoding often seems to do the 
unexpected.  Augh...

Thanks for the suggestion and I will use it.

Steve S.