To set up an encoding for request/response you have to mark it in Navigator. Then in the view under the navigator go to “Request/Response properties” choose encoding and set i.e. to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1.
The CRCRLF is known as result of a Windows XP notepad word wrap bug. For future reference, here’s an extract of relevance from the linked blog: When you press the Enter key on Windows computers, two characters are actually stored: a carriage return (CR) and a line feed (LF). The operating system always interprets the … Read more
The W3C released an official response about when to use and when not to use character escapes which you can find here. As they are also the group that is in charge of the HTML specification, I think it’s best to follow their advice. From the section “When to Use Escapes” Syntax characters. There are … Read more
There’s good article by the W3C called Personal names around the world that explains the problems (and possible solutions) pretty well (it was originally a two-part blog post by Richard Ishida: part 1 and part 2) Personally I’d say: support every printable Unicode-Character and to be safe provide just a single field “name” that contains … Read more
It depends what is the character and what encoding it is in: An ASCII character in 8-bit ASCII encoding is 8 bits (1 byte), though it can fit in 7 bits. An ISO-8895-1 character in ISO-8859-1 encoding is 8 bits (1 byte). A Unicode character in UTF-8 encoding is between 8 bits (1 byte) and … Read more
ASCII was indeed originally conceived as a 7-bit code. This was done well before 8-bit bytes became ubiquitous, and even into the 1990s you could find software that assumed it could use the 8th bit of each byte of text for its own purposes (“not 8-bit clean”). Nowadays people think of it as an 8-bit … Read more
ANSI encoding is a slightly generic term used to refer to the standard code page on a system, usually Windows. It is more properly referred to as Windows-1252 on Western/U.S. systems. (It can represent certain other Windows code pages on other systems.) This is essentially an extension of the ASCII character set in that it … Read more
Vertical tab was used to speed up printer vertical movement. Some printers used special tab belts with various tab spots. This helped align content on forms. VT to header space, fill in header, VT to body area, fill in lines, VT to form footer. Generally it was coded in the program as a character constant. … Read more
The header just denotes what the content is encoded in. It is not necessarily possible to deduce the type of the content from the content itself, i.e. you can’t necessarily just look at the content and know what to do with it. That’s what HTTP headers are for, they tell the recipient what kind of … Read more