bill janssen olchxynparccom qpnyslvloewisde writes web browser posts data standard way communicating encoding using thats true web browser use encoding web page originally contained form wonder discussion confusing two different things take look two prescribed ways sending form data applicationxwwwformurlencoded used ascii data multipartformdata content type multipartformdata used submitting forms contain files nonascii data binary data true page containing form may specify two forms use character encodings determined choice web forms always encode pages utf8 always works work use multipartformdata format bill _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 170141 0700 pythondev encoding detection standard library