[e] (0) Add more colour around application/x-www-form-urlencoded deco…

…ding. Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22734 Affected topics: HTML git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@8183 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Sep 13, 2013 · 2078715 · 2078715
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@@ -56129,6 +56129,14 @@ <h5 id=url-encoded-form-data><span class=secno>4.10.22.6 </span>URL-encoded form
   was an <code title=attr-fe-name-isindex><a href=#attr-fe-name-isindex>isindex</a></code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol><li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <a href=#strictly-split-a-string title="strictly split a string">strictly splitting the
    string</a> <var title="">payload</var> on U+0026 AMPERSAND
    characters (&amp;).</li>

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -56129,6 +56129,14 @@ fur
   was an <code title=attr-fe-name-isindex><a href=#attr-fe-name-isindex>isindex</a></code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol><li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <a href=#strictly-split-a-string title="strictly split a string">strictly splitting the
    string</a> <var title="">payload</var> on U+0026 AMPERSAND
    characters (&amp;).</li>

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -62050,6 +62050,14 @@ fur
   was an <code title="attr-fe-name-isindex">isindex</code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol>
 
    <li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <span