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On September 27, 2004 07:34 pm, Haber, Orna wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm working with curl library (7.11.1) in Windows, communicating to
> Apache server.
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> I would like to support a URL that embeds foreign language characters,
> such as Japanese.
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> To do so, I am trying to communicate to the apache server in UTF-8.
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> The reason I'm trying to work with utf-8 is to be able to support any
> foreign language (with different ranges for different character sets).
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> 1. I have set the charset=UTF-8 as follows:
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> Set the headers as follows:
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> LPCSTR CURLFile::c_szContentType = "Content-Type: text/html;
> charset=UTF-8";
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> struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
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> headers = curl_slist_append(headers, c_szContentType);
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> 2. I convert the URL-path (string contents) to UTF-8 representation and
> pass it on the server as follows:
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> curl_easy_setopt(m_curl, CURLOPT_URL, m_utfFileName.getNewBuf());
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> (m_utfFileName is an instance of the conversion-to-utf8 class.)
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> The server returns error 403 ("Forbidden").
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> Did anyone succeed in passing a URL that embeds Japanese characters?
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> Did anyone succeed with a UFT-8 settings? What is wrong with the above
> setting?
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> Thanks,
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> Orna Haber
>
> Email: orna.haber_at_ca.com

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