CGI Unicode issue?

Kragen Sitaker kragen at dnaco.net
Mon Apr 2 03:25:14 EDT 2001


In article <f7ufctod45hrei5628nts6m9l5f8rrsv9e at 4ax.com>,
Tim Roberts  <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>After a fair amount of web digging, I've learned that these codes are
>base64-encoded Unicode-16 characters.  AAA is a base64 encoding for a
>16-bit null.  ACU is base64 encoding for 0024, the Unicode-16 dollar sign.
>The RFC on UTF-7 encoding mentions this +XXX- encoding.

I haven't seen this, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could make it
go away by specifying a charset on your forms, something like
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" in the HTTP headers.
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