John N. Brahy wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher H. Laco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:28 PM >> To: John N. Brahy >> Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org >> Subject: Re: is there a way to force UTF-8 encoding >> >> John N. Brahy wrote: >>> Is there a way to force UTF-8 encoding? I have tried >>> >>> AddDefaultCharset utf-8 in the httpd.conf >>> >>> OS: OpenBSD >>> Apache: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7g >>> >>> But >>> 1) wget -S says it's Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>> 2) when I try the HTML validator on w3c.org it tells me that it's >>> ISO-8859-1 >>> 3) Internet Explorer and Firefox both have ISO-8859-1 selected >>> 4) Firefox's Page Info shows it as ISO-8859-1 >>> >>> Anybody know a way to force it to utf-8? >> Are there actually any UTF-8 encoded characters in the output? >> If their aren't any, then the document can really be both encodings at >> the same time, unless of course the document also includes a BOM (Byte >> Order Marker). >> >> -=Chris > > Yes, it's a Spanish site that I'm developing for Verizon and they have > characters that show up incorrectly. > > http://www.verizonnoticias.com/ > > We've done most everything to encode into HTML entities but our client will > need to copy and paste from MS word so they will definitely have more of > these characters. Sometimes they show up as boxes and sometimes they show up > as this character à even though it's actually a ñ > >
If you view the page in Firefox, and then manually select the UTF-8 encoding from View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode(UTF-8) ...does the page then display correctly?
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