Re: [naviserver-devel] ns_urldecode -charset

[David O. <da...@qc...>]

On 30 October 2012 20:39, Stephen Deasey <sd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Stephen Deasey <sd...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > But the code points of iso88591 are a subset of utf8...
>
> Actually, this doesn't make sense. The byte encoding of code points
> above 128 uses two bytes for utf8, but only one byte for iso88591.
>

Yes this is exactly it Stephen. We're communicating with an external system
which uses iso8859-1.
So for the extended character set the results are different. The external
system gets confused if it tries to decode something we encoded using utf-8
eg:

nscp 52> ns_urlencode -charset iso8859-1 ú
%fa
nscp 53> ns_urlencode -charset utf-8 ú
%c3%ba
nscp 54> ns_urldecode -charset iso8859-1 %c3%ba
ú

Thanks very much Gustaf for making this change!