[whatwg] Editorial for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding algorithm

[Kristof Zelechovski]

Regarding 4.10
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html>
Forms - HTML 5:

Is:

1.      For each character in the entry's name and value that cannot be
expressed using the selected character encoding, replace the character by a
string consisting of a U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&), one of more
characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9)
representing the Unicode codepoint of the character in base ten, and finally
a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;). 

Should be:

1.      For each character in the entry's name and value that cannot be
expressed using the selected character encoding, replace the character by a
string consisting of a U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&), U+0023 NUMBER SIGN
character (#), one of more characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to
U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9) representing the Unicode codepoint of the character in
base ten, and finally a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;). 

 

Reasons:

1. Internet Explorer sends &#XXXX;

2. The present encoding offers no instant roundtrip.

Besides, it would be easier to say that unsupported characters are converted
to NCRs.

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