RE: Detecting character sets in HTTP requests?

by Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>

Date:	Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:01:15 -0800
To:	"'Bill Rhodes'" <wrhodes(at)qualcomm.com>, "'HWG Servers'" <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

Check HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE. It returns a string of the language (and I'm
guessing by default the characterset) of the user's browser.

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Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
www.captura.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Rhodes [mailto:wrhodes(at)qualcomm.com]

Is there a way to detect what character set the browser is using during a 
GET or POST?  I don't mean the HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET environment variable, 
rather, I need a way to know what encoding they have specifically set their 
browser to.

For example, if they're using KOI8, I'd like to be able to detect that and 
differentiate them from someone using iso-8859-1.

Is there a good solution?  TIA!

-B

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