Ubuntu encodings

[Alexander Skwar]

· Felipe Figueiredo <philsf at ufrj.br>:

> 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

More authorative: RFC2616 - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", 
section 3.7.1. 

If no charset is specified, iso-8859-1 is implied. Assuming anything
different from this is just plain broken.

Alexander Skwar
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