[TriLUG] web page display problem

[Owen Berry]

I'm pretty sure the problem is to do with character encoding. The first
server you listed sends a Content-Type header of "text/html;
charset=UTF-8", whereas the second server sends just "text/html".
Firefox interprets the second one as having an encoding of "Western
(Windows-1252)", which is probably the correct encoding, hence the
question mark when viewed from the first server.

This may be of some use to you:

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset

Otherwise, set AddDefaultCharset in your httpd.conf file for a global
change.

-- Owen

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:06:45PM -0400, Glenn Hennessee wrote:
> 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
>