[Bug 1258546] Re: Apache2 defaults to the wrong character set, it should be UTF-8

[Robie Basak]

I believe browsers typically try to guess. If Apache serves a page that
doesn't have any non-ASCII characters in it, then browsers can guess,
and "windows-1252" would still be correct, since the document was a
strict subset of this charset.

What happens if you serve a UTF-8 encoded file? What does the browser do
then?

If you want Apache to assume that everything in /var/www is UTF-8 by
default, and explicitly set that in every response, then I can
understand such a request, but I think it needs to be coordinated with
the Debian packaging, perhaps also including upstream's view on a
suitable default.

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