defnull/bottle — pull request #484 by denik (2013-04-09 12:49:31+00:00)
Title: static_file: add charset to content-type

currently static_file serves content-type as 'text/html' without
providing a charset, which makes firefox bark with this in the error log:

> The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document
> will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document
> contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding
> of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol.

this patch modifies static_file to add "charset=UTF-8" to all "text/..." mimetypes
in case the mimetype was not provided explicitly. The actual charset used
can be configured via 'autocharset' keyword argument.

Note: I have not actually tested this patch, as I use a stable version.