Re: Baffling unicode wierdness

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> Just for the record it was the browser passing the form params as
> Latin unless there was a character that couldn't be represented in
> Latin. Then it would do as it was told and pass it as utf-8

Can you show either the actual webpage with the form or a simplified test 
case of it? Because I'm still pretty sure browsers don't do that if the page 
is correct. Certainly not Firefox, which I also use and which behaves just 
fine in my own UTF-8 applications, even if I only submit ASCII and umlauts 
that could be represented in Latin1, but no characters > 256.

BTW, you can check what exactly Firefox submits by using the very useful 
LiveHTTPHeaders extension from http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org. And/or you 
could check browsers against one of my UTF-8-capable applications at 
http://www.mwforum.org.