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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-431:
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Any chance someone could work up a failing unit test for this, so when Ken's
fix is done we'll be able to verify it works (and ensure it doesn't get broken
in future!)
> Tika currently misuses the HTTP Content-Encoding header, and does not seem to
> use the charset part of the Content-Type header properly.
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> Key: TIKA-431
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-431
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: general
> Reporter: Erik Hetzner
> Assignee: Ken Krugler
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> Tika currently misuses the HTTP Content-Encoding header, and does not seem to
> use the charset part of the Content-Type header properly.
> Content-Encoding is not for the charset. It is for values like gzip, deflate,
> compress, or identity.
> Charset is passed in with the Content-Type. For instance: text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1
> Tika should, in my opinion, do the following:
> 1. Stop using Content-Encoding, unless it wants me to be able to pass in
> gzipped content in an input stream.
> 2. Parse and understand charset=... declarations if passed in the Metadata
> object
> 3. Return charset=... declarations in the Metadata object if a charset is
> detected.
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