[patch] AddDefaultCharset Off: explanation excerpted from Apache httpd online documentation

httpd.conf.patch (text/plain), 1016 bytes, created by Tom S. on 2005-09-26 09:51:00 UTC

--- httpd.conf	2005-09-27 01:34:30.000000000 +1000
+++ httpd.conf	2005-09-27 01:45:06.000000000 +1000
@@ -850,16 +850,11 @@
 ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
 
 #
-# Specify a default charset for all pages sent out. This is
-# always a good idea and opens the door for future internationalisation
-# of your web site, should you ever want it. Specifying it as
-# a default does little harm; as the standard dictates that a page
-# is in iso-8859-1 (latin1) unless specified otherwise i.e. you
-# are merely stating the obvious. There are also some security
-# reasons in browsers, related to javascript and URL parsing
-# which encourage you to always set a default char set.
+# AddDefaultCharset should only be used when all of the text resources
+# to which it applies are known to be in that character encoding and
+# it is too inconvenient to label their charset individually.
 #
-AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
+AddDefaultCharset Off
 
 #
 # Commonly used filename extensions to character sets. You probably