Originally reported to Debian in 2009 at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523701

IkiWiki generates form elements with charset attributes in a few places. The Debian bug pointed at the "add comment" form, but there are other instances.

charset is not a valid attribute for the form element in HTML(5). We probably want accept-charset, instead: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#attr-form-accept-charset

The WHATWG spec page above suggests the only valid value for the attribute is UTF-8. Is it superfluous? Or does the presence of the attribute change browser behaviour?

— Jon, 2024-04-05

I don't think we should keep the attribute at all. According to MDN, it defaults to the page encoding, which seems fine to me, and much more reasonable than having to specify a (possibly different?!) charset everywhere... So I would just remove this. -- anarcat

Thanks for the info! I've removed it in the linked branch. — Jon, 2024-04-05

I've tested this out a little now and I think it's good to go. done. — Jon, 2024-04-06