tag 514687 wontfix thanks On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:10:07AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 3.0.6-1 > Severity: normal > > Iceweasel sends "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" [0]. > The locale on this system is UTF-8 and all the files are UTF-8; in other > words, there is no good reason to prioritize ISO-8859-1 over UTF-8, and > lots of really good reasons to deprecate ISO-8859-1. > > I'd like Iceweasel to prefer UTF-8 over all other character sets. This > would be consistent with Debian's policy of UTF-8 by default. > > [0] This is true even in safe mode with plugins disabled.
It is not all that important, actually, because for a same resource, very few servers will have a ISO-8859-1 and a UTF-8 version, and won't have to choose between both, which is the only case where the prioritization of ISO-8859-1 in Accept-Charset would be relevant. Also note that ISO-8859-1 is special cased even in RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1): (...) all character sets not explicitly mentioned get a quality value of 0, except for ISO-8859-1, which gets a quality value of 1 if not explicitly mentioned. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
