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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#16174: cyrillic encoding when posting
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-11-29 18:03:41
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On Die, 28 Nov 2000, g.e.t@newmail.ru wrote:

> Package: konqueror
> Version: KDE2.0
> Severity: normal
> Installed from: RPM (Mandrake 7.2 distribution)
> 
> I'm accessing web page in cp1251 encoding (META charset tag present, no charset in \
> http header) with a form. (Basicly, it is online forum.) Page is displayed \
> correctly and Konqueror allows me to enter text in cyrillic alphabet and displays \
> it nicely. But, after submitting form, my text appears on the board in a wrong \
> character encoding (along with text from other people in a rigth encoding). (Form \
> has method POST) 
> Apparently, it comes through extra KOI8-r ->cp1251 conversion. When I tried to \
> submit text passed through recode cp1251->KOI8 (I was not able to read it in a form \
> space), it appeared on the webboard nicely. 
> 
> 
> Sorry, I cannot reproduce it in "lab", because I do not have webserver and do not \
> know how to deal with one, but I believe that it is problem of Konqueror, because I \
> encountered it on two different websites (www.sight.ru and www.gambler.ru/phorum) \
> and Netscape 4.75, running along with Konqueror do not have this problem. 

This has been reported 4 times, and its fixed since ages. If I remember
correctly its even fixed in 2.0.1, but I'm not sure about that (2.1 contains
it for sure). 

Please update to recent KDE CVS. If it still doesn`t work there, then mail
me directly. thanks. 


Dirk


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