# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1094241827 0
# Node ID 88245d14e139c903d0f3e09a13887ae4e4d19471
# Parent  152c78dacc40b00f6aeeaec6529f29d40b9e5378
[project @ 2004-09-03 20:03:47 by paulb]
Added notes on character set usage and limitations.

diff -r 152c78dacc40 -r 88245d14e139 docs/CHARSET.txt
--- a/docs/CHARSET.txt	Thu Sep 02 19:33:37 2004 +0000
+++ b/docs/CHARSET.txt	Fri Sep 03 20:03:47 2004 +0000
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@
  * Where the response content type does not specify a character set, a default
    character set is used to encode Unicode response data (eg. HTML pages).
 
+Restrictions in and Omissions from Standards
+--------------------------------------------
+
+The encoding of character sets such as UTF-16 in HTTP POST request body
+messages of content/media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded is not
+properly standardised. Therefore, it is highly recommended that UTF-8 be used
+as an encoding should the various single byte encodings (eg. ISO-8859-1) not
+cover the range of characters to be displayed and received.
+
 Framework Behaviour
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