[PATCH] hgweb: specify a charset when sending raw text files

[Julian Cowley]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, timeless wrote:
> so, personally, i prefer not sending an encoding if people don't
> *really* know what it is.
>
> browsers are allowed to sniff if there isn't an encoding specified,
> but if you lie and give it one, browsers aren't supposed to sniff.

That's what I thought at first, too.  However, a closer reading of the 
HTTP 1.1 spec says that a missing charset parameter has a default of 
ISO-8859-1.  See RFC 2616 sections 3.4.1 [1] and 3.7.1 [2].

In light of this, I agree with Matt that we should always be sending a 
charset parameter.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.4.1
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.7.1