Hello, I just joined this mailing list because I couldn't get an answer elsewhere on this issue: is the "AddDefaultCharset" directive broken in the recent apache httpd releases?
Here's the setup I've tried this on: - Ubuntu 7.10 + apache httpd 2.2.4 installed from the repositories - Ubuntu 7.10 + apache httpd 2.2.8 compiled from sources - FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE + apache httpd 2.2.8 compiled from sources The apache setup is simple: a directory with Options Indexes FollowSymLinks which should give me a normal directory listing - in that directory all the file names are in different languages: Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish etc. In order to get the listing displayed correctly I needed the UTF-8 encoding. Which worked. I followed the hints on the "AddDefaultCharset" directive I found here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset Let me give you a short description of each particular setup: Ubuntu 7.10 + apache httpd 2.2.4 installed from the repositories: ====================================== Case 1: ---------- /etc/apapche2/apache2.conf contained: Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Result: the "AddDefaultCharset" ignored no matter what I'd replace "UTF-8" with. Case 2: ---------- /etc/apache2/apache2.conf contained: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Result: the same as in Case 1. Ubuntu 7.10 + apache httpd 2.2.8 compiled from sources ================================== /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf contained: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Result: the "AddDefaultCharset" ignored no matter what I'd replace "UTF-8" with. FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE + apache httpd 2.2.8 compiled from sources ======================================= /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf contained: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Result: the "AddDefaultCharset" ignored no matter what I'd replace "UTF-8" with. The solution I've come up with in order to get the listings encoded with UTF-8 was to include the line: IndexOptions Charset=UTF-8 in all the above setups. Now my question is: is indeed the "AddDefaultCharset" directive broken/deprecated? Is this a known behavior? I can't stop but mention that the "AddDefaultCharset" directive *does* work as expected with apache-1.3.39_2 - the default package that gets installed with pkg_add on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. Thanks in advance, Alex. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
