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There is no way to tell which Content-Type should have a charset and which shouldn't.

Content-Type: image/png; charset=utf-8

doesn't make sense and could cause trouble.

application/* is partly charset based and partly not:

- application/octet-stream
- application/xml+xhtml

I think that as said the anterior 'anonymous' should to be a variable as '_'mimetype.charset = "utf-8"'_' to indicate the character set by default.

So instead of have to writing the same for each type where is needed ('_'; charset=utf-8'_') as in this example that I'm using:

## mimetype mapping
mimetype.assign            = (
".css"          =>      "text/css; charset=utf-8",
".htm"          =>      "text/html; charset=utf-8",
".html"         =>      "text/html; charset=utf-8",
".txt"          =>      "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
".gif"          =>      "image/gif",
".jpg"          =>      "image/jpeg",
".jpeg"         =>      "image/jpeg",
".png"          =>      "image/png",
".svg"          =>      "image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8",
".svgz"         =>      "image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8",
".js"           =>      "application/x-javascript; charset=utf-8",
".xml"          =>      "application/xml; charset=utf-8",
".xsl"          =>      "application/xml; charset=utf-8",
".atom"         =>      "application/atom; charset=utf-8",
".rss"          =>      "application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8",
".pdf"          =>      "application/pdf",
".swf"          =>      "application/x-shockwave-flash",
# the default mime type.
#""              =>      "text/plain; charset=utf-8" 
)

there would be anything as:

".css"          =>      "text/css; char",
...

Then '_*char*_ would be changed by the value of '_*mimetype.charset*_.

The idea is set a variable with a value by default and then use it only where is necessary.

Use include_shell if you need such custom behaviour.