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REPORT #530 Details.

Project: Tomcat
Category: Bug Report
SubCategory: New Bug Report
Class: swbug
State: received
Priority: medium
Severity: serious
Confidence: public
Environment: 
   Release: 3.2-final
   JVM Release: n/a
   Operating System: n/a
   OS Release: n/a
   Platform: n/a

Synopsis: 
[PATCH] bad default character encoding in jsp pages

Description:
jsp pages served by tomcat contain a bad charset string in
their http header. This is not understood by some non iso8859-1
systems/browsers. Macintosh w/ netscape 4.76 will fail to
understand that 8859_1 is actually ISO-8859-1.

According to 
src/webpages/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletResponse.html,
the reply should be "ISO-8859-1". According to IANA,
the 8859_1 is *not* a way to say ISO-8859-1 in MIME headers
<http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets>

Name: ISO_8859-1:1987                    [RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 4
Source: ECMA registry
Alias: iso-ir-100
Alias: ISO_8859-1
Alias: ISO-8859-1 (preferred MIME name)
Alias: latin1
Alias: l1
Alias: IBM819
Alias: CP819
Alias: csISOLatin1

are all allowed ways to describe a character set in MIME.
This is not the same as Java's internal represenation, which
truely is 8859_1.