Consider UTF-8 as the default HTTP encoding

[vlsi]

Use case

Sending unicode data should not corrupt it.

Possible solution

We might consider using UTF-8 by default instead of the current ISO_8859_1.

See

jmeter/src/protocol/http/src/main/java/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/PostWriter.java

Line 52 in 13793b7

public static final String ENCODING = StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1.name();

See

• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#selecting-a-form-submission-encoding (If candidate encodings is empty, return UTF-8

Possible workarounds

No response

JMeter Version

5.5

Java Version

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OS Version

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