How html links are encoded?

[yeah1279]

I recently changed our web pages to be utf-8 encoded (server response header content type is also set to utf-8). There are some links to external sites within the pages that pass parameters that can have special characters. Example:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget

When the parameter gets loaded by the external site, the æ renders as æ, which is I guess the UTF-8 encoded value.

I used an http request analyzer to analyze the GET request that I'm sending via the link and it turns out the my GET request is:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget.

However, if I open a new browser manually and just type in http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget directly (not coming from my page), then the value is rendered fine æ is rendered as æ.

The question is, is there any way that a link from my UTF-8 encoded page can send a GET request that does not have UTF-8 encoded characters? Meaning can I send æ instead of æ or does the browser do this automatically w/out any chance of controlling the behavior? Any javascript I can use to ensure that the GET request for my link is set as æ instead of æ?

By the way I'm using IE6 and have no control over the external site. The external site does not even render a META tag with the charset of the page.

Thanks in advance to anyone that has any insights on this.

[r035198x]

I recently changed our web pages to be utf-8 encoded (server response header content type is also set to utf-8). There are some links to external sites within the pages that pass parameters that can have special characters. Example:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget

When the parameter gets loaded by the external site, the æ renders as æ, which is I guess the UTF-8 encoded value.

I used an http request analyzer to analyze the GET request that I'm sending via the link and it turns out the my GET request is:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget.

However, if I open a new browser manually and just type in http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget directly (not coming from my page), then the value is rendered fine æ is rendered as æ.

The question is, is there any way that a link from my UTF-8 encoded page can send a GET request that does not have UTF-8 encoded characters? Meaning can I send æ instead of æ or does the browser do this automatically w/out any chance of controlling the behavior? Any javascript I can use to ensure that the GET request for my link is set as æ instead of æ?

By the way I'm using IE6 and have no control over the external site. The external site does not even render a META tag with the charset of the page.

Thanks in advance to anyone that has any insights on this.

Moved to web related forum.

[kovik]

URLs cannot legally contain special characters. Every web development language has a URL encoding function. Look it up for whichever you are using.

[praveen2gupta]

I recently changed our web pages to be utf-8 encoded (server response header content type is also set to utf-8). There are some links to external sites within the pages that pass parameters that can have special characters. Example:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget

When the parameter gets loaded by the external site, the æ renders as æ, which is I guess the UTF-8 encoded value.

I used an http request analyzer to analyze the GET request that I'm sending via the link and it turns out the my GET request is:

http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget.

However, if I open a new browser manually and just type in http://Google.com?addressLine1=Hasselvænget directly (not coming from my page), then the value is rendered fine æ is rendered as æ.

The question is, is there any way that a link from my UTF-8 encoded page can send a GET request that does not have UTF-8 encoded characters? Meaning can I send æ instead of æ or does the browser do this automatically w/out any chance of controlling the behavior? Any javascript I can use to ensure that the GET request for my link is set as æ instead of æ?

By the way I'm using IE6 and have no control over the external site. The external site does not even render a META tag with the charset of the page.

Thanks in advance to anyone that has any insights on this.

Hi

I have tryied to understand your problem.

1. The HTML will send the url by applying page encoding. If your page is in utf-8
then it will send it in utf-8 and the receiver will understand it properly.

2. In your case i have tried it on the utf-8 encoding and i am getting following in the url. Which are the utf-8 characters.

 
http://www.google.com/?addressLine1=Hasselv%E6%AE%A7et
 

3. Your url code is different than as above . I thinks Your page encoding is not working. So pls. check it and test it properly. The problem area is encoding of page is not effective.