[Python-Dev] Can the cgi module be made Unicode-aware?

[Alex Martelli]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 06:26 pm, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
	...
> Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
> > I did some reading before nodding off last night.  The <form> tag takes
> > an optional "accept-charset" attribute, which can be a list.
>
> No, it doesn't - that's a proprietary extension. Or, maybe I'm missing
> something: where did you find a statement that this is "official" in
> any sense?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.3


> > Adding an "accept-charset" attribute to the <form> does appear to
> > have some effect on Content-Type in some instances, but not in all.
>
> It might depend on the browser, since it's proprietary.

It might of course depend on the browser even if it's official.  Browsers
notoriously comply to "extended subsets" (:-) of w3c recommendations
to bewildering extents.


Alex