update misleading info about default charset in HTTP (fixes #426) #429
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This text really needs a rewrite; it apparently hasn't been touch for nearly two decades. This PR applies a minimal fix WRT defaults that do not exist in HTTP anymore.
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| ISO-8859-1. But there are too many unlabeled documents in other encodings, so browsers use the reader's preferred encoding when there is no explicit | ||
| <p>Documents transmitted with HTTP that are of type text, such as text/html, text/plain, etc., can send a <a class="print" href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#field.content-type">charset parameter</a> in the HTTP header to specify the character encoding of the document. </p> | ||
| <p>It is <strong>very important</strong> to always label Web documents explicitly. Until 2014 (RFC 7231), HTTP/1.1 used to say that the default charset is | ||
| ISO-8859-1. But there are too many unlabeled documents in other encodings, so browsers either detect the encoding based on the MIME type, or otherwise use the reader's preferred encoding when there is no explicit |
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This isn't quite correct, but to your point this needs a thorough rewrite.
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This text really needs a rewrite; it apparently hasn't been touch for nearly two decades. This PR applies a minimal fix WRT defaults that do not exist in HTTP anymore.