Is it possible to remove the ngx_http_charset_module module?

Question

Nginx

I want to remove the ngx_http_charset_module module, what does it affect, judging by the description, it is needed to display the encoding in the “Content-Type” field of the response header. Is this module purely informational or without it, for example, utf-8 will not work?

Answer 1

Leave him alone. This is a native, standard, small module, the removal of which certainly will not help you "speed up the server", but it may well cause unexpected rakes elsewhere.
And in general, use the standard assembly for your axis. Do not engage in nonsense, cutting out supposedly unnecessary modules, this will not give you a visible performance boost. It is better to optimize the application code. And if your project is already optimized to the maximum, and the load on the servers is so high that Nginx micro-optimizations can matter - hire a highly specialized guru on this issue, one of the Nginx developers for example. But I highly, strongly doubt that you have a similar situation.