Re: [jetty-dev] Re: Character Encoding and Jetty 7

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why did this change in the first place?  I seem to remember around
that time some discussion about the spec stating it ought to be 8859
so it was switched

I prefer utf-8....just curious now..

jesse

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jesse mcconnell
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 22:46, Greg Wilkins<gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan,
>
> I think we should change it back to UTF-8, as that will work with
> almost all 8859 content as well.
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> Jan Bartel wrote:
>> 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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