Subject: bug#70906: [PATCH] Send HTTP headers with charset utf-8.

From: Felix Lechner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 21:38:32 -0700

In most cases, providing HTTP headers with the charset is superior
to (and has precedence over) the declaration in an HTML <meta> tag:

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/26032993

A preview of this code is live at patchwise.org.
---
 mumi/web/render.scm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mumi/web/render.scm b/mumi/web/render.scm
index ad3ae0e..e867178 100644
--- a/mumi/web/render.scm
+++ b/mumi/web/render.scm
@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@
 
 (define* (render-html sxml #:key (extra-headers '()))
   (values (append extra-headers
-                  '((content-type . (text/html))))
+                  '((content-type . (text/html (charset . "utf-8")))))
           (lambda (port)
             (sxml->html sxml port))))
 
 (define (render-json json)
-  (values '((content-type . (application/json)))
+  (values '((content-type . (application/json (charset . "utf-8"))))
           (lambda (port)
             (scm->json json port))))

base-commit: 99416ed5c7d950eaf54d52023a2efd975bccac92
-- 
2.41.0