[TriLUG] web page display problem

[Glenn Hennessee]

Thanks for the info. I have been trying to get all this to work. I 
changed the global character set to windows-1252 by a AddDefaultCharset.

I added the following to httpd.conf
<Directory /home/franzen/public_html>
     AllowOverride FileInfo
     AddDefaultCharset windows-1252
</Directory>

and for good measure added a .htaccess file in the users public_html 
directory with
AddCharset windows-1252 .htm
in it. Other documents serve out at windows-1252 but this file still 
serves out as utf-8. I admit to being at a loss here. The meta tag in 
the file specifies windows-1252 as the character set for this document. 
Sigh!
glenn

Owen Berry wrote:
> 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
>>