[pmwiki-users] Defaulting PmWiki to utf8

[H. Fox]

On Nov 20, 2007 6:49 AM, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Hans wrote:
> > Looking at the issue of character sets I notice that in the skins I
> > published the skin template has a content meta tag set as
> > content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
> >
> > I never thought much about it, but do now: is this bad practise?
> > Is it better a skin does not set a character set?
> >
> > How is it set normally?
>
> Hi Hans.
>
> You shouldn't need to set such meta tag for iso-8859-1 as this is the
> assumed default character encoding, if none is set.

I think it may be very important to send the charset for security reasons.

Reference:  http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

Charset info is at ~25minutes, although the whole thing is worthy of a listen.

Hagan