Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Bad handling of 8-bit characters; state change on GET request

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:21:46PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

• the site should not create categories on the basis of a GET request (RFC 2616 sec 9.1.1), therefore categories need to be created at the time that they are entered into a node, rather than on first access.

Given a recent similar problem that london.og has experienced, I agree fully.

(http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-london/2004-June/000264.html)

• it would be nice to locate the source of this charset confusion, but if the above is fixed this is a secondary consideration (it may turn out that the problem is entirely brokenness on the client side in which case it can be safely ignored)

I know very little about character set issues, but perhaps someone else here does (Kate?); however, I have a feeling you're right about the first problem preventing the second. Let's deal with this and see how it goes.