Only set the charset when the body is set for certain mime types

[brianquinlan]

Fixes #1438

NOTE: The charset parameter is not defined for application/x-www-form-urlencoded so the changes to those tests should not break anything.

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Package publishing

Package	Version	Status	Publish tag (post-merge)
package:cronet_http	1.5.0	already published at pub.dev
package:cupertino_http	2.3.0	already published at pub.dev
package:http	2.0.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:http2	3.0.0	ready to publish	http2-v3.0.0
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package:http_parser	4.1.2	already published at pub.dev
package:http_profile	0.1.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:ok_http	0.1.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
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cupertino_http	Breaking	2.3.0	2.3.0	3.0.0 Got "2.3.0" expected >= "3.0.0" (breaking changes)	⚠️
http	Breaking	1.5.0	2.0.0-wip	2.0.0	✔️
ok_http	Breaking	0.1.0	0.1.1-wip	0.2.0 Got "0.1.1-wip" expected >= "0.2.0" (breaking changes)	⚠️

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package:cronet_http	pkgs/cronet_http/example/pubspec.yaml
package:cupertino_http	pkgs/cupertino_http/example/pubspec.yaml
package:ok_http	pkgs/ok_http/example/pubspec.yaml

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