Fix Default Encoding for application/json Content-Type in HTTP Responses #1422
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This merge request addresses a long-standing issue (#175) where the http package defaults to latin1 encoding when no charset is specified in the Content-Type header. Per RFC 8259, the default encoding for application/json should be utf-8.
The fix ensures that responses with Content-Type: application/json and no explicit charset parameter are decoded using utf8 by default. This change improves compliance with the JSON standard and prevents decoding errors for valid JSON payloads encoded in utf-8.