[twill] html entities and latin-1 problem

gabor gabor at nekomancer.net
Thu Mar 9 13:45:44 PST 2006


Titus Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:57:45AM +0100, Michele Simionato wrote:
> -> BTW, Gabor's fix changing "latin-1" to "utf-8" in
> -> twill/other_packages/mechanize/_html.py/form_parser_args
> -> solves the issue for me too.
> 
> heh, it solves some problems I had, too.
> 
> Googling about, I find:
> 
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html
> 
> which is confusing but probably correct, and
> 
> 	http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/htmlunicode.html
> 
> which says "use UTF-8".
> 
> Is everyone OK with that?  

ok with switching to use-utf8-as-default?
i'm ok with that, the only problems i could imagine are possible 
backward-incompatibilities (for which i don't care :-))


gabor



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