Bug 30860 - Misinformation in default httpd.conf
Summary: Misinformation in default httpd.conf
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23421
Alias: None
Product: Apache httpd-2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0-HEAD
Hardware: All All
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: HTTP Server Documentation List
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Reported: 2004-08-26 09:32 UTC by Jori M
Modified: 2004-11-16 19:05 UTC (History)
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Description Jori M 2004-08-26 09:32:29 UTC 
In default httpd.conf it reads "as the standard dictates that a page
is in iso-8859-1 (latin1) unless specified otherwise". Well, at
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2 it is said
""user agents must not assume any default value for the 'charset'
parameter".

So, server admins should always set default charset.
Comment 1 Nick Kew 2004-08-26 12:30:28 UTC 
This is basically bug 23421.

As for "the standard", Apache serves HTTP (rfc2616, though I think the comment
you refer to goes back to rfc1945).  The W3C's HTML spec has nothing to do with it.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23421 ***