[Pagekit-users] encoding?

[Erik <eri...@bo...>]

Hi

I have played with pagekit for some time now. And now I would be able to
have a site that use UTF8 internally. But how to I do that. The easy
part is to have all files in UTF-8 and save to the DB in UTF-8 and so
on. But pagekit are smart and sends the page in the encoding the browser
prefers. That is not any problem. But who do I handle the input from a
form?

I mean how do I know what char encoding the web-browser are sending in?
I can't trust the outgoing encoding because that is trivial to change in
ant browser. Afaik there are no serten way to tell what encoding by just
looking at the string.

What are you doing to fix this? Om my previous site i "converted" all to
Latin-1. But that was just a ugly hack. utf8:Is_utf8() and
Encode::is_uft8() won't help they say false on every string passed by
apache. :/


One way is to block pagekit and send everything in UTF-8 because most
often the browser will send the return in UTF-8... but that solution
aren't bullet prof. The user can still send in eg Latin-1 or the browser
do not handle UTF-8 (rare).

Any ideas?

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Erik G=FCnther                                     eri...@bo...
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