[TriLUG] web page display problem

[Owen Berry]

I'm no sure why it would work for some documents but not for others,
but I was wondering if it's possible to get Apache to not return a
character set with the Content Type header? The server that displays the
page correctly seems to be leaving it up to the browser to determine
what it is, and it's working correctly.

-- Owen

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:45:00PM -0400, Glenn Hennessee wrote:
> 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
> >>