[Zope-dev] Content Type Meta tag stripping in zope.pagetemplate

[Miano Njoka]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Miano Njoka <mianonjoka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
>> /> tags were being stripped out from ZPT templates. Is there a reason
>> for this?
>
> As I recall, the rationale goes like this:
>
> 1. We're sniffing the input encoding from the charset setting.
>
> 2. We're storing the content-type on the instance (I hope tihs
>   is still true).
>
> 3. The template/application/publisher is responsible for
>   delivering the the output with an appropriate content-type
>   header.


Yes, this is true, but why strip out the meta tag from the resulting HTML?