22734 2013-07-19 09:46:16 +0000 How is the default character encoding determined to decode application/x-www-form-urlencoded payloads? 2013-09-13 22:32:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#url-encoded-form-data P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike simon.sapin contributor oldest_to_newest 90980 0 contributor 2013-07-19 09:46:16 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#url-encoded-form-data Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#url-encoded-form-data Referrer: Comment: How is the default character encoding determined to decode application/x-www-form-urlencoded payloads? Posted from: 207.218.72.65 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36 91236 1 ian 2013-07-24 17:44:45 +0000 This appears to be defined here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#application/x-www-form-urlencoded-decoding-algorithm Is that not sufficient? 91263 2 simon.sapin 2013-07-24 23:31:07 +0000 The way I’m reading this, the default character encoding is an input to the * decode application/x-www-form-urlencoded payloads* algorithm. My question is, how are the users of the algorithm (none of which appear to be in this spec) expected to pick an encoding? 91295 3 ian 2013-07-25 23:47:26 +0000 Oh, I see. My bad. I thought you meant how is the character encoding determined. There's no good way to pick one. If you happen to know what encoding was likely to have been used, then you can set that (e.g. if your page is Win1252, and it has a form, and you are decoding the form results, then it's slightly more likely than not that the encoding is Win1252, so that'd be a default worth using), but there's no real way to know. 93320 4 ian 2013-09-12 21:28:04 +0000 Would it help if the spec said this? 93370 5 ian 2013-09-13 22:32:45 +0000 I put that in the spec. 93371 6 contributor 2013-09-13 22:32:54 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8183. Check-in comment: Add more colour around application/x-www-form-urlencoded decoding. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8182&to=8183