On 11/21/05, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In those files, I see lots of [black dimonds around] question marks, > in places near every hyperlink, as well as where the (c) copyright > symbol should be. > > The black diamonds show up in firefox under x-widnows, and they are > just normal question marks in firefox on win/mac. > > It seems as if apache2 is using the wrong character set or something. > opening with file:// works fine. > > This is at the top of each HTML file: > <html><head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Apache completely ignores those meta headers (unless configured with third-party modules). > > what do I need to switch on in apache2 to see iso 8859-1 characters? See the AddDefaultCharset directive. You can probably fix your problem just by removing it from the config. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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