: Append encoding information to HTTP response headers I have an old web application (not maintained anymore) of which a small part is still needed; this is displayed in iframes. Unfortunately,

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I have an old web application (not maintained anymore) of which a small part is still needed; this is displayed in iframes.

Unfortunately, the old application uses ISO-8859-1 encoding (which it doesn't declare; it simply sends Content-Type: text/html), while the new one (of course) uses UTF-8. Thus, since the encoding of the iframe contents is not specified, UTF-8 is expected, and thus several characters look wrong.

The VirtualHost of the old application does some rewriting to a JBoss application:

RewriteRule ^/(.*) localhost:9080/ [L,P]


I'm able to edit this VirtualHost (while nobody will touch the application itself anymore); how would I add the encoding information?

E.g., for all contents with a textual content type which lack encoding information (naked Content-Type: text/html), append ; charset: ISO-8859-1.
Any simple code snippet? Thank you!

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