Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to What's the difference between ns_conn query and ns_getform?

You should generally always use ns_getform. I have some patches
for handling multilingual user input, and ns_getform is
where the charset conversion from the user's encoding to unicode happens and is cached, so in the future if any
code wants to accept user form data in different encodings,
it should always get the bits from ns_getform.