Christopher H. Laco wrote: > 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? > For me, in Firefox 1.5.0.1, It indeed loads as ISO-8859-1 Latin1. I don't notice and questionable characters on the page.
If I tell firefox to use UTF-8, it looks the same for me. -=Chris
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