I'd still like my original characters retained in any return contact I have without transformation problems. Perhaps the goal should be NOT to specify the encoding of forms, but rather to enforce a Unicode or 10646 scheme for all forms as the ONLY input mechanism, browsers would then be obliged to interface with and convert data from the relevant local IME's to Unicode. Actually this is the question that I am working on too. The default input data are in cp932 character set for Japanese Win95. Hi Jesse, One of the solution to your question is to specify charset of your original document.
Major browsers send back to server in the character encoding being used in the form.