On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:33:33PM +0200, Damjan wrote: > How does that matter if the user (quixote developer) changes > HTTPResponse.DEFAULT_CHARSET to something else (expecting that > change to be reflected everywhere)? Changing DEFAULT_CHARSET has no effect on what is the default for the HTTP protocol. If you don't provide a second argument to set_content_type then it's as if you did not provide the 'charset' parameter on the Content-Type header. Neil