[Greasemonkey] Javascript character encoding problem

Jonas Lundberg my.name.is.hans at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 19:34:37 EDT 2006


It was a bug before the specification was published as well, of
course. Now it is also a conformance problem.
But the quesiton is, does anybody know how to fix it?
(and does that person care about fixing it?)

Hans


On 4/13/06, Josh Matthews <mrlachatte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please note that the specification is all of 8 days old.
>
> "This is the 05 April 2006 Working Draft of the XMLHttpRequest Object, the
> first publication of this specification."
>
> On 4/13/06, Jonas Lundberg <my.name.is.hans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is definitely a bug, according to the w3c draft, the xmlhttprequest
> > encoding is not correct.
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
> > "If the method is POST or PUT, then the data passed to the send()
> > method MUST be used for the entity body. If data is a string, the data
> > MUST be encoded as UTF-8 for transmission. If the data is a Document,
> > then the document MUST be serialised using the encoding given by
> > data.xmlEncoding, if specified, or UTF-8 otherwise [DOM3]. "
> >
> > Is there a bug tracker or something?
> > (I wish I could fix this myself... but perhaps someone else can?)
> >
> > Hans
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>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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