Re: Typing Cyrillic

On 20 May 2022 as I do recall,
John-Mark Bell wrote:

> Additionally, note that the character encoding used to submit forms on
> websites is determined from the web site itself (and has nothing to do
> with whatever settings apply to the OS on which the browser is running).
> In the case of Google, the search page they serve to NetSurf does not
> specify a charset to use for form submission, so the encoding of the web
> page will be used. Page -> Info will tell you that this is ISO-8859-1
> (i.e. Latin 1), which is not able to represent Russian, thus you will
> find that attempting to search Google for Russian text will end up with
> NetSurf submitting a load of question marks, instead. Other search
> engines (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Yahoo) work fine as NetSurf is able to submit
> UTF-8 encoded text to those (and thus Russian is representable).
>

I wondered if using www.google.ru would work (on the assumption that
this page presumably expects Russian input), but it doesn't. (Page Info
gives "windows-1251", but the search result page returned then shows up
as ISO-8859-1 again)

And clicking on "Google offered in: russkiy" (in the absence of any
ability to submit Cyrillic in e-mail!) at the bottom of the page gives
an error; doing the same thing on google.de, for example, does
successfully switch the page over into searching in German.


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