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Bug 16964 - i18n-ISSUE-95: Limitations and defaults for accept-charset
Summary: i18n-ISSUE-95: Limitations and defaults for accept-charset
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-05-07 17:21 UTC by Addison Phillips
Modified: 2014-02-27 21:39 UTC (History)
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Description Addison Phillips 2012-05-07 17:21:40 UTC 
4.10.3 The form element
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-form-element

The "accept-charset" field is said to "gives the character encodings that are to be used for the submission". Is this a real limitation on the encodings used? Is there a default value (presumably the page encoding)?
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-10 17:59:36 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't understand. Could you elaborate?
Comment 2 Addison Phillips 2014-02-27 21:39:21 UTC 
I believe that the comment was because section 4.10.22.5 was overlooked. The instructions for how to use accept-charset and what character encoding to use in a form submission are there.