[Clipart] character set on http://www.openclipart.org/ pages

Sun Jul 10 02:40:04 PDT 2005

Jon Phillips wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:42 +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
>  
>
>>The main page is served as UTF-8, but "/cgi-bin/navigate" is ISO-8859-1.
>>It should be changed in the HTTP header, not using HTML, but first we
>>need to be sure that won't screw everything up? We should definitely be
>>using unicode throughout IMHO.
>>
>>Anyway, to change it we need "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" in the .htaccess
>>of cgi-bin.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>Name: JoÃ£o Palhoto Matos
>>>E-mail: jmatos at math.ist.utl.pt
>>>
>>>
>>>Please use a character set tag in the <head> section of your web
>>>pages. On Firefox on Linux they come out being interpreted as
>>>ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.
>>>      
>>>
>
>Sooo...the htaccess is not correct (and doesn't work). I changed
>the /cgi-bin/navigate script to:
>
*Shrug* Works for me (on another site). It might be that it's
over-ridden by a more specific setting for that particular type of file.
Or something like that. At least you got it sorted : )

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