Re: [9fans] utf-8 text files from httpd

[Kenji Arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>]

according to rfc2616, default charset in sending text file is ascii:

    The "charset" parameter is used with some media types to define the
    character set (section 3.4) of the data. When no explicit charset
    parameter is provided by the sender, media subtypes of the "text"
    type are defined to have a default charset value of "ISO-8859-1"
when
    received via HTTP. Data in character sets other than "ISO-8859-1" or
    its subsets MUST be labeled with an appropriate charset value. See
    section 3.4.1 for compatibility problems.

httpd need explicitly charset=utf-8 in http header in sending utf-8
text.

Kenji Arisawa

On 2009/10/19, at 9:34, Akshat Kumar wrote:

> I'm trying to put up a plain text file containing UTF-8
> characters from httpd, but when viewing it from any
> browser, it comes off as an ASCII file that needs to
> be downloaded (so, those characters are garbled).
> Is this due to some behaviour of httpd?
>
> ak
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