[Petal] More on entities and Â

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Tue 04-May-2004 at 11:50:14AM -0400, William McKee wrote:
> 
> > > The next thing that confuses me is that I have Perl 5.8.3 installed on
> > > both systems. Only one is showing the extra character.
> > 
> > This is, of course, mistery. ;-)
> 
> Figures... :-/

Perhaps you environment is different?

  $ printenv | grep LANG

?

> My understanding of utf-8 was that it was compatible with latin1.

No, UTF-8 is compatible with US ASCII not Latin 1.

> One more point which may be at the root of my problems. I'm trying
> to get Apache to add the Content-Type header using the following
> declaration in my httpd.conf per the Apache docs:
> 
>     AddDefaultCharset utf-8
> 
> No matter if I have this in my main server configuration or the
> virtual host configuration, if I do a `HEAD http::servername`, I
> get back a Content-Type of iso-8859-1. If I view the page in
> Firefox and manually tell Firefox to display it as UTF-8, all is
> well. Any ideas why Apache isn't playing nice?

Hmm, that's odd. 

I usually do it like this:

  AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' .html

Chris

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