Forms
- Use hint ACCEPT-CHARSET="utf-8" on both the FORM element and the FORM controls.
- <FORM METHOD=GET ... > and
<FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded ... >
- Lacking a specification of a character
encoding scheme, the "%HH" notation has no well-defined meaning.
- Browsers send back in the encoding they received. Don't rely on that.
- <FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data ... >
- Every form element is a separate body of a multipart MIME body.
- Not all your user-agents support multipart POST.
- Patch CGI.pm and if it works out well, Doug will hopefully fix Apache::Request too.
- Don't rely on the headers you get.
- Use heuristics.
Internationalization
O'Reilly Apache Conference,
24 August 1999
Andreas König (on CPAN: ANDK)
<andreas.koenig@anima.de>