[Seaside] Accent encoding problem with seaside and scriptaculous

[Philippe Marschall]

2006/12/18, Florian Minjat <florian.minjat at emn.fr>:
> Hi,
>    I spent two hours yesterday to figure that out.
>    I have a form with an ajax button (scriptaculous) which trigger the
> form when clicked. But if I have some accented or special characters
> in the input fields of the from, they are stored with errors.
>    At first I tought it was
> HTTPRequest>>decodeUrlEncodedForm:multipleValues: and
> String>>unescapePercents which were broken. Then that it's the
> scriptaculous script which is guilty.
>    This bug is pretty obvious to test, at least on my squeak
> (seaside2.6b1-mb.127 Scriptaculous-lr.162) : juste use the form part
> of the scriptaculous example. If you input 'forêt' you get a
> forêt in seaside. The POST variable value transmitted to seaside is
> 'for%C3%AAt'. But the URL-encode value for the character 'ê' should be
> '%ea'.
>    But I tried this example on scriptaculous.seasidehosting.st, and it
> is displayed well with the same post value. So the guilty should be
> seaside or Kom.
>    Anyone as an idea how to make seaside understand the percented
> values the way it should ?

They work unless you have some combination that doesn't work
- Squeak version
- Kom adaper (WAKom/WAKomEncoded/WAKomEncoded39)
- Client encoding
- desired String class (WideString, (utf-8) ByteString)
please

Philippe