Re: Typing Cyrillic

On 21/05/2022 10:09, Harriet Bazley wrote:
> 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.

As of CI build #5346, Google will serve up pages using the UTF-8
encoding, so all this mess goes away.


J.
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