Bug#668858: apache2: doesn't use UTF-8 by default
Package: apache2
Version: 2.4.1-3
Apache is one of the few things in Debian not configured to use UTF-8 by
default. Considering that UTF-8 has been the default encoding for four
releases already, GUI stuff doesn't really support ancient locales anymore
and there's talk about dropping them from glibc as well, changing this in
Apache is long overdue. The transition to 2.4 seems like a good time for
such a change.
It's a quite visible sore spot too: like half of even Debian's servers get
the encoding wrong on text/plain files, mangling people's names, etc -- so
even if the Debian crowd has trouble getting this right, what can be said
about an average admin?
If every single file on the system is in UTF-8, I see not a single reason
to use something else.
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