[gw] (2) If a character in a URL's query component can't be expressed…

… in the page encoding, replace it with a question mark (matches IE and Opera) git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@1825 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Jun 28, 2008 · c069c76 · c069c76
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    <h1 id=html-5>HTML 5</h1>
 
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=draft>Draft Recommendation &mdash; 27 June
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=draft>Draft Recommendation &mdash; 28 June
     2008</h2>
 
    <p>You can take part in this work. <a
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      original &lt;query&gt; production defined in RFC 3986:</p>
 
     <ol>
+     <li>If the character in question cannot be expressed in the encoding
+      <var title="">encoding</var>, then replace it with a single 0x3F octet
+      (an ASCII question mark) and skip the remaining substeps for this
+      character.
+
      <li>Encode the character into a sequence of octets as defined by the
       encoding <var title="">encoding</var>.
 

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     <ol>
 
+     <li>If the character in question cannot be expressed in the
+     encoding <var title="">encoding</var>, then replace it with a
+     single 0x3F octet (an ASCII question mark) and skip the remaining
+     substeps for this character.</li>
+
      <li>Encode the character into a sequence of octets as defined by
      the encoding <var title="">encoding</var>.</li>