I met a problem, about the server being unable to know the charset used to pass FORM data.
I investigated, and found an
interesting article by IBM (very techiey, don't dare to read!) stating that actually there's a flaw in the protocol.
in the (not so near) future, UTF-8 will be mandatory for templates.
let's say for HFS 2.4
so invite all of you who care about future compatibility to comply with this.