[Clipart] character coding

[Jon Phillips]

Stephen Silver wrote:
> Jonadab wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Well, there appear to be two problems.  Form-entered metadata does
>>>need to be converted to UTF-8, but that won't fix the problem of
>>>metadata in the uploaded file somehow being converted to Latin-1.
>>
>>Do we know that the latter is happening?
> 
> 
> Hmm... Apparently it isn't happening any more (but I'm sure it was when
> I tried it before, about a month ago).
> 
> I uploaded two test files today, and the non-ASCII characters (whether
> encoded as UTF-8 or as numeric character references) were converted to
> character entity references, except for a couple that were converted to
> numeric character references.  I think that this is wrong too: the SVG DTD
> doesn't declare the character entity references so they can't be used.
> Inkscape just strips them out.
> 
> 
>>>I think you can probably cheat with the form-entered metadata by using
>>>
>>>  accept-charset="UTF-8 US-ASCII"
>>>
>>>in the <form> tag, then you should only receive UTF-8.  But very old
>>>browsers may not know about accept-charset, and might send the data
>>>in some other encoding.
>>
>>I will try this and see if the problem goes away.  How "very old" does
>>a browser have to be to ignore this?  Are we talking the Netscape 3
>>kind of very old, or are we talking IE5?
> 
> 
> Well, accept-charset was defined in HTML 4.0 (April 1998), but apart from
> that I have no idea.  If you find that this doesn't work in many browsers
> then you may have to look at the Content-Type field in the HTTP header to
> see what encoding the data is in, and then convert it.
> 

What version of Inkscape are you using as well. The most recent version in CVS 
received much attention in its Internationalization. It got released yesterday 
btw, version 0.41.

Jon


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