hi folks, i've landed in a character set mire, i need help from someone who knows.. i used wget to copy the entire http://nonviolentpeaceforce.org site to http://nvpf.org/np. the former is in m$ asp, the latter captured as html. for example, http://nonviolentpeaceforce.org/spanish/welcome.asp was captured to http://nvpf.org/np/spanish/welcome.asp.html as you can see, the capture is mostly fine, including spanish characters in the text (eg año), however the spanish characters in the menus didn't do quite so well (eg Misi?n) in the file año appears as año which is apparently "good", but Misi?n appears as Misión, which is apparently "bad". first question: why is that bad? if i tell galeon, instead of automatic encoding, use western iso-8859-1,then, presto, the page appears nicely. but i don't have to do that to see the original, nor do i have to do that for anybody else's pages, and of course i can't expect our audience to go and fiddle with that in their browsers.
second question: why doesn't the meta http-equiv header do anything?right after the title the file says <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">. why isn't that good enough? why does it make no difference at all what i change it to? i tried utf-8, Utf-8, UTF-8, Windows-1252, none have any effect tho i can see them if i tell my browser to view source.
third question: is there some other setting in apache i should tweak?from my blithely naive viewpoint, apache should be able to spit out those &whatever; escapes in place of the corresponding characters found in my html. is that feature hiding in there somewhere?
fourth question: can wget be tweaked to do better? i think those menus were rendered out of some .asp database orwhatever, differently than the rest of the text of the page. but so what? why didn't wget capture something identical to what my
browser shows? the command i ran was wget -ENKkrl19 -nH -w2 -owget.log http://nonviolentpeaceforce.orgi also tried prepending LC_ALL=en_US to that, in hopes of avoiding the utf-8 default. the result was different, but similarly dissapointing: http://nvpf.org/np/t/spanish/welcome.asp.html
well whatever, thunk i, no problem, i'll just find and replace. well ha. i haven't yet managed to craft sed to capture the buggers! it's all making me feel dang defeated..
any help? tia, greg Greg Whitley Mott IT Coordinator NonviolentPeaceforce.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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