Jim, thanks for all the info. I would prefer to not clutter filenames with encodings and locales, and the remainder I need to coordinate with my ISP. I'll talk to them and see what they let me do.
tex "James H. Cloos Jr." wrote: > > >>>>> "Tex" == Tex Texin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tex> I am surprised by the "must only be used". It seems I am not > Tex> conforming by including a meta statement in the utf-16 HTML > Tex> page. I should either remove the statement or encode the HTML up > Tex> to and including that statement as ascii. I'll check on this. > > Since you are using apache, it is quite easy to get the extra headers > sent at the protocol level rather than having to use meta tags. > > You can use a Header directive in an .htaccess file a la: > > <Files foobar.html> > Header set Content-Language en-US > Header set Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8 > </Files> > > Or, you can use mod_cern_meta to put the extra headers in a > foo.html.meta file. (The actual filename suffix can be set in the > .htaccess file or the main server conf files.) > > There are other ways as well. Apache will already (if you use the > default configs) add the Content-Language header if you use a filename > like foo.en.html. You could have it also add the charset via a > similar mechanism. Something like: > > AddCharset UTF-8 utf8 > > will make foobar.en.utf-8.html send the headers: > > Content-Language: en > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > given the default configs for language and type extensions. > > Hmmm. Looking at a recent install of SuSE, using their apache rpm, > .utf8 is already configured as an extension to set charset=UTF8, so > you could try just renaming the file to eg: > > http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-plane1.utf8.html > > to set the charset. You'd have to add your own AddCharset directives > for UTF-16 and UTF-32. > > -JimC -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] the Progress Company Tel: +1-781-280-4271 http://www.progress.com ------------------------------------------------------------- "The world writes in my database!" Progress Exchange 2002 http://www.progress.com/exchange/labs.htm#globalization Globalization Empowerment for Progress users http://www.progress.com/consulting/globalization_empowerment_solutions.htm A compelling demonstration for Unicode: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-example-intro.html
