cobrateam/splinter — Issue #134: mechanize doesn't support HTML meta charset
Author: fsouza
Created: 2012-02-10 21:06:10+00:00
State: open
Labels: brainstorm

mechanize doesn't support HTML meta charset, and it affects the zope.testbrowser driver.

This issue was [reported](https://github.com/tenderlove/mechanize/issues/113) and [fixed](https://github.com/godfreykfc/mechanize/commit/21d3f18b3c49e4d448f9cdbaf52fc77a37963783) in the Ruby version of mechanize in june 2011, but Python's mechanized does not receive any update since march of last year.

Leaving it open for some ideas of what we can/should do:

* just document this issue;
* fork mechanize and force splinter to use this fork;
* try to contact mechanize maintainers about the bug;
* any other idea I can't figure out now