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Charset for html

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Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
api

Research direction

Locate the existing text_utf8 constructor for ContentType and use it as the starting point for the analogous HTML case. Confirm that the new constructor produces the requested Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header, and check the existing constructor's tests or output expectations for verification.

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Description

headers has a text_utf8 constructor for ContentType. I suggest a html_utf8 constructor be added, as well, resulting in

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Motivation: If the charset is not set for the text/html content type, then it defaults to ISO-8859-1, but in many situations, the charset is really UTF-8.

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