Question

Is there an easy way to specify all “normal” views is an ASP.NET MVC app are to have charset=utf-8 appended to the Content-Type? View() lacks an override that allows you to specify the Content-Type, and ActionResult and friends don’t seem to expose anything, either. The motivation is obviously to work around Internet Explorer guessing the “correct” encoding type, which I in turn want to do to avoid UTF-7 XSS attacks.

Answer 1

Maybe this in your web.config will do the magic?

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
  </system.web>
</configuration>