[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope3/lib/python/Zope/PageTemplate - PageTemplate.py:1.3

[Guido van Rossum]

> > When I type a non-ASCII character in a box in my browser, is it
> > encoded as UTF-8?
> 
> That depends on your browser settings. Also, if you send 
> 
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> you can set a particular character set (encoding).

Does this affect the encoding of stuff sent back from the form?

> We agreed to standardize on UTF-8. However, we really need to find a
> way later to make this variable.

Why?  Because of the first issue?

> I still don't understand why the browser is not sending its encoding
> mechanism in the HTTP header.

Because the authors of HTTP were clueless about i18n?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)