Message 121864 - Python tracker

Message121864

Author	v+python
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, eric.araujo, flox, ggenellina, giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, l0nwlf, oopos, pebbe, r.david.murray, tcourbon, tercero12, tobias, v+python
Date	2010-11-21.05:24:38
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Message-id	<1290317079.68.0.408295002952.issue4953@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Regarding http://bugs.python.org/issue4953#msg91444 POST with multipart/form-data encoding can use UTF-8, other stuff is restricted to ASCII! From http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html: Note. The "get" method restricts form data set values to ASCII characters. Only the "post" method (with enctype="multipart/form-data") is specified to cover the entire [ISO10646] character set. Hence cgi formdata can safely decode text fields using UTF-8 decoding (experimentally, that is the encoding used by Firefox to support the entire ISO10646 character set).

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Regarding http://bugs.python.org/issue4953#msg91444 POST with multipart/form-data encoding can use UTF-8, other stuff is restricted to ASCII!

From http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html:
Note. The "get" method restricts form data set values to ASCII characters. Only the "post" method (with enctype="multipart/form-data") is specified to cover the entire [ISO10646] character set.

Hence cgi formdata can safely decode text fields using UTF-8 decoding (experimentally, that is the encoding used by Firefox to support the entire ISO10646 character set).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-11-21 05:24:39	v+python	set	recipients: + v+python, gvanrossum, barry, amaury.forgeotdarc, ggenellina, giampaolo.rodola, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, oopos, tercero12, tcourbon, tobias, flox, l0nwlf, pebbe
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