> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher H. Laco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: John N. Brahy; modperl@perl.apache.org > Subject: Re: is there a way to force UTF-8 encoding > > 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
It's the homepage that is giving me problems. And now we just added HTML::Entities to the CMS and our content person just pasted HTML into the field so we are now seeing "Español " with the ñ being escaped. So now I'm off in another direction trying to find out how to only encode the characters that are giving us problems. I think I'm going to have to write a custom encoder to only encode the special characters. Thanks for your time and help, John
