[opencms-dev] Request character encoding - An answer with a n ew Q

[Vlachogiannis Evangelos]

You mean I do not need to do the conversion? I have tried that and it does
not work .... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Kuba [mailto:makub at ics.muni.cz] 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:50 AM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Request character encoding - An answer with a n
ew Q

Vlachogiannis Evangelos wrote:
> My operating system (winxp) uses "Cp1252" that's why it is working 
> like this. But my question is how can I know what encoding the client 
> uses. I cannot see being able to retrieve this from request headers. 
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong request encoding is depends on tomcat 
> encoding (??).

There is no way to know for sure the encoding the client uses.
It is a flaw in HTTP protocol which doesn't provide a way for GET requests
to specify encoding, so POST requests do not do it also.

However the common practice used by all browsers is to submit data from
forms in the same encoding as was the page with the form.
So if all your pages are in, say, ISO-8859-7, then you can safely expect the
requests to be in the same encoding.

Martin
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