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Revise "Character Encodings for Responses" (#521)
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The text now reflects that the default encoding is UTF-8.
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jugmac00 authored and dataflake committed Feb 23, 2019
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Character Encodings for Responses
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If the published method returns an object of type 'string', a plain
8-bit character string, the publisher will use it directly as the
body of the response.
If the published method returns an object of type *binary*, the
publisher will use it directly as the body of the response.

Things are different if the published method returns a unicode string,
because the publisher has to apply some character encoding. The
published method can choose which character encoding it uses by
setting a 'Content-Type' response header which includes a 'charset'
setting a *Content-Type* response header which includes a *charset*
property (setting response headers is explained later in this
chapter). A common choice of character encoding is UTF-8. To cause
the publisher to send unicode results as UTF-8 you need to set a
'Content-Type' header with the value 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'

If the 'Content-Type' header does not include a charser property (or
if this header has not been set by the published method) then the
publisher will choose a default character encoding. Today this
default is ISO-8859-1 (also known as Latin-1) for compatability with
old versions of Zope which did not include Unicode support. At some
time in the future this default is likely to change to UTF-8.
chapter). A common choice of character encoding is UTF-8, which is
also the default encoding.

If the *Content-Type* header does not include a charset or is not set
at all, the default encoding is set.

If you want to manually set a *Content-Type* header you have to set a
value like ``text/html; charset=UTF-8``.


HTTP Responses
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