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		Encoding Differentials: Why Charset Matters (sonarsource.com)
		3 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

necovek 7 months ago [–]

I distinctly remember HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 having a default character encoding of "Latin 1" (ISO-8859-1).

Did some browsers stop doing that?

Edit: see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#section-3.4.1 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#section-3.7.1

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