[Python-Dev] Can the cgi module be made Unicode-aware? (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleax@aleax.it
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:56:36 +0200

On Thursday 11 April 2002 06:26 pm, Martin v. Loewis wrote: ...

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes: > I did some reading before nodding off last night. The tag takes > an optional "accept-charset" attribute, which can be a list.

No, it doesn't - that's a proprietary extension. Or, maybe I'm missing something: where did you find a statement that this is "official" in any sense?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.3

> Adding an "accept-charset" attribute to the does appear to > have some effect on Content-Type in some instances, but not in all.

It might depend on the browser, since it's proprietary.

It might of course depend on the browser even if it's official. Browsers notoriously comply to "extended subsets" (:-) of w3c recommendations to bewildering extents.

Alex