Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/19/06 23:12

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
> > The lesson is that using iso-8859-15 instead, in addition to being a
> > wrong move in general as Alan explained, would not help against all
> > _other_ characters that people may enter, even if it "worked" in
> > some circumstances.

A few years back, there were some reports of bizarre things happening
in IE when a euro character was pasted into an iso-8859-1 form. Now
that I've had time to look at this thread, I'm starting to think that
this might be something similar.

It's mentioned (as of dates in 2002 and 2004) in my writeup at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html#iefurther

But I'm afraid although my page is in English, most or all of that
cited discussion will be in German, and I don't know whether the
original poster can read that.

In any case, if we conclude - as we've all said before - that it's a
better approach to use utf-8 for forms submission, then the problem
goes away by itself, and there's no need to understand which versions
of IE are defective or just what they are getting wrong in this
regard.

Hope this helps a bit.

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