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[jetty-dev] Re: Character Encoding and Jetty 7
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Digging a little deeper, in fact it seems we made this change waaay back for
jetty-6.1.12.
Here are the 2 jira issues related to it:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-633
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-853
I'm not sure why we decided to change to ISO-8859-1 in JETTY-633.
No clues in the commit comments as to the reason.
I seem to have commented in the later issue JETTY-853 that in
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.7.1 it
specifies default encoding of ISO-5589-1. But looking at that section now,
it only stipulates ISO-8859-1 for Content-Type of "text", so not sure
why I thought that was relevant.
So in short, I don't know why we changed from UTF8 to ISO-5589-1 in
the first place, but it seems to have been changed at least since
jetty-6.1.12, so the change has some history to it.
The wiki page at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/International+Characters+and+Character+Encodings
seems to be documenting our earlier UTF-8 behaviour.
Do you want to keep it at ISO-8859-1 and I'll update the wiki page,
or do you want to change (back) to UTF-8 ?
cheers
Jan
Greg Wilkins wrote:
Jan
I don't think this was done on purpose.
Do you know where the change was made or what is needed to change it
back to UTF-8?
regards
Jan Bartel wrote:
Greg (lists in cc),
Jetty seems to have changed the assumption of the default character set for
form data to be ISO-8859-1, whereas previously jetty assumed UTF-8.
What was the reason for the change? A few people are reporting issues with
jetty-7 that are all due to the change in char-encoding defaults.
The HTML5 draft spec makes it clear that for url encoded form data the
default should be UTF-8:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#url-encoded-form-data
Note that we have not changed our default for char encoding ofurls in
requests, and still use UTF-8 as per
http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars
Do you think we should revert to UTF-8 for form data for jetty-7.0.0 final?
cheers
Jan
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