Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Because that page is served with UTF-8 by Apache. What you
> want to do is
> comment that line in the Apache config out. It's a
> really stupid setting,
> not really understandable why they put it in the default
> config.
>
The apache docs state that it does no harm and there are some
security reasons for having a default
# 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.
#
Spike.