Re: [jetty-dev] Re: Character Encoding and Jetty 7

[Greg Wilkins <gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse McConnell wrote:
> Why did this change in the first place?  I seem to remember around
> that time some discussion about the spec stating it ought to be 8859
> so it was switched
> 
> I prefer utf-8....just curious now..


We used to not even have special 8859 handling and just handle it as utf8.
We added the 8859 handling and made that the default.

So now we have handling for both, but utf8 is used if not charset it
provided.

cheers