# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1099588281 0
# Node ID a5a09e1164a81899a5a199af0f7245d714875a5b
# Parent  a143740f19fa2cdc7c1cf70677345365a1f8aa84
[project @ 2004-11-04 17:11:21 by paulb]
Added a note about not reading request streams as Unicode.

diff -r a143740f19fa -r a5a09e1164a8 docs/CHARSET.txt
--- a/docs/CHARSET.txt	Sun Oct 17 19:31:09 2004 +0000
+++ b/docs/CHARSET.txt	Thu Nov 04 17:11:21 2004 +0000
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
    character set is used to decode the request body parameters unless
    overridden.
 
+ * No conversion is done at the request stream level, since information about
+   the character set may be missing and the application may wish to override
+   any default explicitly at a higher level (such as when it gets request body
+   parameters).
+
  * Where the response content type specifies a character set, this is used to
    encode Unicode response data (eg. HTML pages).