Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> 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
> 
Also, subpages, like http://www.verizonnoticias.com/News/Article/272/
work just fine and come through as UTF-8

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