# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1093890240 0
# Node ID a451f549b73dd8c85cc846600ce1df3524ef6d04
# Parent  53bb6caa685f864e9c59d89b38d1405f7e722f2f
[project @ 2004-08-30 18:24:00 by paulb]
Added a default charset to ContentType. This should avoid many accidental
UnicodeError situations - developers might now only encounter such things
when setting inappropriate charsets.

diff -r 53bb6caa685f -r a451f549b73d WebStack/Generic.py
--- a/WebStack/Generic.py	Sun Aug 29 22:46:29 2004 +0000
+++ b/WebStack/Generic.py	Mon Aug 30 18:24:00 2004 +0000
@@ -20,8 +20,16 @@
     "A container for content type information."
 
     def __init__(self, content_type, charset=None, attributes=None):
+
+        """
+        Initialise the container with the given principal 'content_type', an
+        optional 'charset' (which otherwise uses "utf-8" as default), and
+        optional 'attributes' (a list of 2-tuples each representing the
+        key=value pairs which qualify content types).
+        """
+
         self.content_type = content_type
-        self.charset = charset
+        self.charset = charset or "utf-8"
         self.attributes = attributes
 
 class Transaction: