[TYPO3-core] RFC: garbage characters are shown if form validation fails

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> The solution uses decodeURI which is a) not available on older browser 
> and b) relies on UTF8 input data (as URLs must be UTF8 encoded).

I think if "older browsers" is MSIE5, we can drop it...

> So if we don't care about older browsers we can ensure that the data 
> passed from PHP to JS in such a way is ecnoded in UTF8.

Normally, it should. I do not remember where I read it but I am sure 
that non-latin1 symbols should be in unicode when used in URL.

> PS: I think that decodeURIcomponent is what should be used.

Is this available on older browsers?

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