Re: google translate and non-ascii characters

Hi,

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:10 +0000, corvid wrote:
> Andreas wrote:
> > I tried to use translate.google.com with dillo and it does not work
> > with non-ascii characters. I do not know http by heart so that I know
> > what character set should be send in the post request but it seems
> > not to be what google expects. Words with non-ascii characters are not
> > translated and non-ascii characters are turned into questionmarks.
> 
> With our default http_user_agent setting, I see this problem as well.
> With it set to a firefox string, translate.google.com seems to work fine.
> 
setting it to a firefox string gives
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type">
instead of
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">

but google seem to always want utf-8 from the html form. So it seems to
be a clear google bug.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade