Ubuntu encodings

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 11:33, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> > Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> writes:
> > > (a website that does not specify encoding is probably a legacy
> > > website).
> >
> > Maybe, but if it's a WWW site, it's implicitly specifying iso-8859-1
> > by default.
>
> Says who?

Says Apache's documentation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset

"AddDefaultCharset On enables Apache's internal default charset of iso-8859-1 
as required by the directive. You can also specify an alternate charset to be 
used."