[TriLUG] web page display problem

[Glenn Hennessee]

I have a faculty member who has created some web pages by exporting them 
from Powerpoint version 9 according to the embedded meta tag in the html 
file. The problem is that there is a high bit character, hex A0, in the 
file (I had to use a hex editor to see what is there). When I serve this 
from my server at 
http://chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu/%7Efranzen/CH331/lecture/Lecture_1_files/v3_document.htm 
the hex A0 is displayed as a question mark (just before the "L" in 
Lecture 1). When the page is served up from 
http://courses.ncsu.edu/ch331/lec/001/lecture/Lecture_1_files/v3_document.htm 
the hex A0 is displayed as a blank.

Now I know that a hex A0 is not a valid character for a HTML file but 
the faculty member wants my web server to display it the same way as 
courses.ncsu.edu displays it, hex A0 and all. This is beyond my 
understanding of web server configuration not to mention why does 
powerpoint insert a non-valid character into a html file.

I am running apache 2.0.46 from httpd-2.0.46-46.2.ent on a RHEL 3 box.

Does anyone have any idea on how to configure apache to do something 
magical with this high bit character?

Thanks.
glenn