Re: [MacPerl] Forms: parsing accented chars

[Don Blaheta <blahedo@quincy.edu>]

Bart sez:
> >>>>
> Approach 1:
> Let the CGI script check the kind of browser the user is using.

Sounds ok.

> >>>>
> Approach 2:
> Hide the characters with code 128 to 255 in your form in a hidden field. Let
> the browser include this string together with the request, split the result
> up, and use this as a translation table, to get your standard encoding.
> 
> I have absolutely no idea whether this can be done. It sounds nice though,
> because it would be totally independent of the kind of browser the user is
> using. Ah, wishful thinking...

Do you mean including them in "logical" form (i.e. é stuff) or
"hardcoded" form (i.e. ‡ stuff)?  I'm not sure that either would
work...  would the browser encode anything that wasn't typed into it
directly?

> >>>>
> Approach 3: A pragmatic approach. I've noticed that Mac and Ansi encoding
> hardly overlap: Ansi uses mainly codes from 192 and up, while the Mac sticks
> mainly to codes beneath 160. In fact, codes above 218 are meaningless on the
> Mac, and codes beneath 160 mean nothing in Ansi (well, they might be
> considered as duplicates of the controls codes 0-31 actually).

Um... what kind of Mac are you using?  Mine uses all 128 8th-bit-high
characters....  As for the ANSI code (I'm assuming that's just
ISO-Latin-1), aren't they defined as really strange control code stuff
("reverse linefeed" and the like)?  Not that that matters in this
application, but I thought that something was defined for it.

> Bart Lateur

Don

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