Re: UTF-8 and the Form component : Question for Howard inside

[Random Tapestry User <ta...@comcast.net>]

Nick,

I've seen problems in the past, mainly with IE5, and some of those 
issues are described in detail here.
These were of course without using Tapestry.

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html

http://nukecops.com/article1481.html

I guess I just adopted the multipart enctype rather than trying to 
diagnose problems if they occured with browsers that aren't up to snuff.

So far I too have experienced no problems with request cycles to and 
from my local server, pasting in Japanese, etc. with IE and Firefox.

I'm just a little concerned about older browser's implementations (IE5, 
nothing older !) and their interaction with Tapestry and using the 
default UTF-8 and the default url encoded form post. Also, I would not 
be able to test every possible character with my machine.

If you read this Howard, do you have any insight if there's anything 
special that needs to be done to accomodate the FULL unicode set in all 
forms, or is that already accounted for in your code ?

I work for a group in a large 3 letter company that is considering 
adopting Tapestry, in a worldwide project, and this issue would be a 
showstopper as virtually every country and codeset are represented in 
the application in question.

Regards,
tappapp


Nick Westgate wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've been developing Tapestry apps involving Japanese content using
> default settings (UTF-8), and have experienced no problems.
> (Well, except OSX IE5 not displaying Japanese UTF-8 in drop downs!)
>
> The apps so far have been for intranets - a good proving ground for me,
> and restricted to just a few browsers for acceptance testing. But my
> next app will be wide open to the net. If you run into any issues,
> I'd sure like to hear about them. Likewise, I'll post if I see any.
>
> Summary: Win IE6 Firefox NN7, OSX Safari Firefox NN7 ok so far.
> OSX IE5 ok bar above.
>
> Do you recall the problems you've seen in the past?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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