non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, it matters to me.
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> the right charset is already indicated in the head section.[/color]
^^^^^^^
What matters is if the same _encoding_ is declared with the `charset' label
of the `Content-Type' HTTP header because that takes precedence over any

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...; charset=...">

in the (X)HTML source code if the resource is served via HTTP.
See RFC1945 [1], 3.6.1, and RFC2616 [2], section 3.4.1. Use services like
<URL:http://web-sniffer.net/> and <URL:http://livehttpheaders .mozdev.org/>
to find out.
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> russian characters, therefore, are properly displayed.[/color]

Maybe. Maybe not.
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> why wouldn't links work? how do i encode them then?[/color]

You do not encode (visual hyper)links [3], you encode their target URIs as
described in RFC3986 [4], and, after that, as described in HTML 4.01 [5].
This has nothing to do with J(ava)Script/ECMAScript, though. [6]


PointedEars
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[1] <URL:http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt>
[2] <URL:http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt>
[3] <URL:http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>
[4] <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html>
[5] <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2>
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.4>
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars>
[6] <URL:http://validator.w3.or g/>

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:
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> but you can see the first link. encoding matches. characters are
> properly displayed, yet IE does not want to open that link at all:
> http://tmd.df.ru/test/test_%20???????%201.gif
>
> only: http://tmd.df.ru/test/test_%20%F0%F3...%E8%E9%201.gif[/color]

Because the former is no URI. Read RFC3986.


PointedEars