"If needed" is a bit hard to define though, since this type of filter should 
never be needed if all else is working properly.  Seam will then need a 
mechanism for setting the charset on a per page basis.  Certainly can be done, 
but is non-trivial and opens a can of worms.  If you specify web-app wide 
settings you get enhancement requests from folks needing to change the charset 
for a few pages.  So you then provide an override mechanism (in pages.xml 
maybe).  Then folks have more than just a few overrides, and don't want to have 
to (or can't) enumerate (think a large number of generated help files with MS 
encoding).  Another enhancement for glob or regex matching.

I won't stop anyone from writing the best charset filter around.  However I 
agree with the initial assessments.  There are other ways to tell a browser 
what charset to use.  Having a webapp wide filter can introduce complexity and 
bugs to those using these mechanisms (how is Seam going to be able to detect my 
meta tag?).

Including this filter in the codebase as a utility is one thing.  Enabling it 
by default is another.

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