[Pangloss] UTF-8 input a safe assumption?

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Tue 01-Apr-2003 at 10:54:14AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:
> 
> My preference would be to support only UTF-8 -- it makes the back
> end much more simple.

I agree. 

The way browsers work is that with forms they send the charset that
the form is in so as long as all the web forms are UTF-8 then we
should be OK.

This can also be explicitly set on the form element but AFAIK this
isn't supported by browsers (I use the accept-charset attribute
anyhow...):

  <form 
    action="http://mkdoc.com/search.html" 
    method="get"
    accept-charset="us-ascii, utf-8"
  >

  http://mkdoc.com/

Another issue is building the glossery from remote pages and at this
stage I think it is OK to only support UTF-8 remote documents
(perhaps in the future other stuff could be supported).

Chris
 
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