http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5398
Product: apache-conf
Component: apache-conf
Summary: Apache should not specify a default character set for
text/* types
Product: apache-conf
Version: 2.0.47-5mdk
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: apache-conf
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2 and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset when a charset
parameter is specified in the Content-Type HTTP header sent by the server, it
overrides the charset specified in the <meta> tag of the HTML document.
Apache shipped with Cooker has the directive AddDefaultCharset set to
"ISO-8859-1" (see commonhttpd.conf). Consequently, all HMTL documents are
considered as ISO-8859-1 documents by conforming web browsers such as Mozilla,
even if they are UTF-8 or Windows-1252 documents according to their <meta> tag.
This behavior, though not severe, is a bit irritating because in most case (if
not all) the <meta> tag reflects the correct character set for the document.
Therefore, the AddDefaultCharset directive should be set back to its default
value (Off).
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