And you are contradicting yourself by proposing two defaults at the same time.

So 5 years from now on someone like you will complain the wrong one was chosen.

Neither HTML nor table/db/schema encodings are part of the language and magically changing their settings/headers would not only require new modules and procedures.

(Not sure if CGI.pm is even actively developed anymore.)

It would also mean magically overriding the configs of the Web/DB servers.

> I don't think it's a stretch

Well, who else thinks like you?

Which language does it like you propose?