Hi Joshua, Thanks very much for the suggestion. I changed the AddDefaultCharset directive as you suggested and it now works.
Thanks again Neil > > From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed AM 11:42:04 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem displaying French characters > > On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using what appears to be Apache 2.0.52 (the rpm package states it is > > httpd-2.0.52-22) on a CentOS 4 Linux system. I am trying to make some > > documentation available on our intranet so that it is accessible to our > > French subsidiary but I noticed that any accented characters in the text > > are appearing as strange characters. I am assuming this is something to do > > with fonts but have been unable to find a solution. My httpd.conf file is > > pretty much unchanged from the default installation other than being edited > > to change the server name and enable Server Side Includes. > > > > If I load the HTML into my browser directly from my local disk it looks > > fine but as soon as it is served via the web server I see the problem. > > Look in httpd.conf for the AddDefaultCharset directive and either > change it to "none" or set it to something that makes sense for your > content. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
