id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
72	Django should add charset info to output HTTP headers	anonymous	Adrian Holovaty	"It seems Django doesn't add the ""charset=utf8"" field to ""Content-type: text/html"" header while sending headers to the browser. This cause pages encoded as UTF-8 look wrong in the browser (Firefox assumes page is encoded using iso-8859-1, which is the default HTTP encoding). 

Sample headers sent by Django:

{{{
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:51:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4.1
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

200 OK
}}}

Patching Content-type header to look like ""Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"" would make clear which encoding is used by the server. 

[http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset More info about charset param here.]

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