Re: [cgiirc-general] cgi-irc 0.5.4 xml bug

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

Maxim wrote:
> Hello.
> 
>   There are encoding problems with xmlhttp_send  in IE
>   Mozilla is fine.
>   Then browser [IE] send post request to client.cgi the encoding is
>   utf-8 .. english letters are fine.. but cyrillic appears in irc as
>   %u0430%u0431%u0432    unicode encoded string.. some experiments with
>   
>   xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type",
>   "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
> 
>   failed.... adding charset in header in no sense.
> 
>   client.cgi must convert this string from utf to some charset or..
>   somehow ie must send post data in needed charset.

I don't think you can specify the charset sent (it's always utf-8),
I think maybe it's time to do utf-8 support for CGI:IRC..

(Although some IRC clients might not be able to display utf-8 still)