You configure the web server to send: Content-Type: text/html; charset=...in the HTTP header when it serves HTML files.
So how does this break down? When a person enters Montréal, Quebéc into a form field, what are they doing on the keyboard to make that happen? As the string sits there in the text box, is it latin1, or utf-8 or something else? How does the browser know what sort of data it has in that text box? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
