On 11/21/05, Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In those files, I see lots of [black dimonds around] question marks,
> in places near every hyperlink, as well as where the (c) copyright
> symbol should be.
>
> The black diamonds show up in firefox under x-widnows, and they are
> just normal question marks in firefox on win/mac.
>
> It seems as if apache2 is using the wrong character set or something.
> opening with file:// works fine.
>
> This is at the top of each HTML file:
> <html><head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Apache completely ignores those meta headers (unless configured with
third-party modules).

>
> what do I need to switch on in apache2 to see iso 8859-1 characters?

See the AddDefaultCharset directive.  You can probably fix your
problem just by removing it from the config.

Joshua.

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