Set encoding on text responses.

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ This allows you to specify a different asset root for the directory of your appl
 
 By default this is set to `public_html/`
 
+#### Default Character Set
+This allows you to specify a character set for your text assets (HTML, Javascript, CSS, and so on). For most apps, this should be the default value of "UTF-8", but you can override it by setting `encoding`:
+
+```json
+{
+    "encoding": "US-ASCII"
+}
+```
+
 #### Clean URLs
 For SEO purposes, you can drop the `.html` extension from URLs for say a blog site. This means users could go to `/foo` instead of `/foo.html`.
 

scripts/config/lib/nginx_config.rb

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ class NginxConfig
     json["worker_connections"] ||= ENV["WORKER_CONNECTIONS"] || 512
     json["port"] ||= ENV["PORT"] || 5000
     json["root"] ||= "public_html/"
+    json["encoding"] ||= "UTF-8"
     json["proxies"] ||= {}
     json["proxies"].each do |loc, hash|
       if hash["origin"][-1] != "/"

scripts/config/templates/nginx.conf.erb

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ http {
 
   server {
     listen <%= port %> reuseport;
+    charset <%= encoding %>;
     port_in_redirect off;
     keepalive_timeout 5;
     root <%= root %>;