Re: Re[2]: [cgiirc-general] cgi-irc 0.5.4 xml bug

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

Maxim Shpakov wrote:
> The problem is that xmlhttp.send method it translate chars into utf8
> from msdn:
> >>
> >>If the input type is a BSTR, the response is always encoded as UTF-8.
> >>The caller must set a Content-Type header with the appropriate content type and include a charset parameter.
> 
> as I see the solution is:
> a) use SAFEARRAY parameter type for xmlhttp.send
>   MSDN:
>   >>>If the input type is a SAFEARRAY of UI1, the response is sent as is without additional encoding.
>   >>>The caller must set a Content-Type header with the appropriate content type.
>   but jscript doesn't support safearrays...
> 
> b) translate from utf8-to-plain in client.cgi
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> This bug is critical for me.. because..it doesn't allow to chat in
> cyrillic language.. 0.5.3 is fine.

b) is difficult, CGI:IRC currently knows nothing about encodings,
also sending %uHHHH doesn't look like UTF-8 to me, it looks like
some other sort of unicode encoding..

To translate unicode characters into another format (I'm assuming
you use something like windows-1251?) would be difficult..