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Re: [tlug] XEmacs 21.4.15 and UTF8

Josh,

I had the same problem, which I fixed by setting
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

It was "AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1"
out of the box.

Of course, all my pages are in UTF-8....

Jake

--- Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/05, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:22:27PM +0900, Josh wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody have any ideas? In the meantime, I am using EUC-JP
> > > encoding, which works fine, but Firefox defaults to Western
> > > (ISO-8859-1) even though I have the following in my <head>
> section:
> > >
> > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=euc-jp" />
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why *this* is not working? It works fine for Jim
> > > Breen's WWWJDIC pages.
> >
> > He fixed it by adding the following php code.   (I don't know php,
> and at present, I'm
> > waiting for confirmation from him, as to my <very limited>
> knowledge, it seems as if
> > he mistyped.  He also said that he "put it at the top".  Again, not
> > knowing php, I don't know if this means above the <head> tag or
> not.
> >
> > <?
> > header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
> > ?>
> 
> This injects a "Content-type" header into the HTTP response itself.
> The <meta> tag should do the same thing; it is an instruction to the
> browser to act like it saw the following header.
> 
> > To my (again very limited) understanding of php, I suspect that the
> > first line should be <?php  rather than just a question mark, and
> I'm
> > also not sure if it was his typing or my emailer that put the <?
> and
> > ?> on separate lines, as every other example that I remember seeing
> > would have it on the same line as the actual code.
> 
> No, this is fine. If you are *just* doing PHP, you do not have to
> worry about putting a "php" after the "<?". It is only when you mix
> server-side scripting languages inline that you *must* be specific.
> 
> Also, whitespace does not matter between the <? and ?> tags.
> 
> > Ah, here's the explanation of why the META tags might not be
> working.
> >
> > http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=10942
> 
> I will take a look.
> 
> Cheers,
> Josh
> 
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