Accept-Charset

Accept-Charset

 

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The Accept-Charset header is used by clients to tell servers what character sets are acceptable or preferred. The value of this request header is a list of character sets and possibly quality values for the listed character sets. The quality values let the server know which character set is preferred, in case the server has the document in multiple acceptable character sets. See Chapter 17 for a complete discussion of content negotiation and q values.

Type

Request header

Notes

As with the Accept header, "*" is a special character. If present, it represents all character sets, except those that also are mentioned explicitly in the value. If it's not present, any charset not in the value field has a default q value of zero, with the exception of the iso-latin-1 charset, which gets a default of 1.

Basic Syntax

Accept-Charset: 1# ((charset | "*") [";" "q" "=" qvalue])

Example

Accept-Charset: iso-latin-1