[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[P.J. Eby]

At 11:30 AM 9/22/2009 +0100, Alan Kennedy wrote:
>I see this as being the same as Graham's suggested approach of a
>per-server configurable charset, which is then stored in the WSGI
>dictionary, so that applications that have problems, i.e. that detect
>mojibake in the unicode SCRIPT_NAME or PATH_INFO, can attempt to undo
>the faulty decoding by the server.

This puts the burden on the wrong end of the pipe: there are more 
apps than servers and they would *all* have to check this in order to be sane.