The default charset of ISO-8859-1 has been removed. The default is whatever the media type says.
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According to Phil Hunt's blog entry, <[https://blogs.oracle.com/fusionmiddleware/entry/standards_corner_ietf_revisits_http](https://blogs.oracle.com/fusionmiddleware/entry/standards_corner_ietf_revisits_http)> there are a number of improvements in the recent HTTP 1.1 JSRs that should be investigated for their impact on Servlet.
The default charset of ISO-8859-1 has been removed. The default is whatever the media type says.
Section 5.5 states:
> If the servlet does not specify a character encoding before the getWriter method of the ServletResponse interface is called or the response is committed, the default ISO-8859-1 is used.
This text needs to be updated to reflect the changes in RFC 7231 [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231)
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