Re: [users@httpd] apache2: spurious [black diamond] question marks in iso-8859-1 HTML files

"Emmanuel E" <emmanuel.e@xxxxxxx> · Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:45:07 +0530

I also face the same problem somtimes with the site gmx.net, when I use 

apache as a proxy. I have two identical installs of apache setup as proxy on 

two different machines. I used to get the black diamonds on either proxy. 

Then after a while the black diamond marks disappeared on one proxy but they 

still appear on the other. In Firefox I tried tweaking the charset but 

couldnt locate a charset which made those black diamonds disappear.

I wonder firstly if its a region problem - both the proxies are located in 

different geographies so does the webserver (gmx.net) do some automatic 

charset based on region.

Secondly I wonder if its a firefox problem.

Now that you mentioned it will look into more detail into the 

AddDefaultCharset directive and also compare FF vs IE.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Joshua Slive" <jslive@xxxxxxxxx>

To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:09 AM

Subject: Re: [users@httpd] apache2: spurious [black diamond] question marks 

in iso-8859-1 HTML files

On 11/21/05, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I found two places where there was an AddDefaultCharset directive in
my config files. I commented them both out, and restarted the apache2
server. Still seeing those silly questionmarks. Then tried adding

AddDefaultCharset off

restarted. Still no dice. Any other suggestions?

Then that means the documents probably aren't really in the charset
that you think they are in.  In firefox you can use "view->character
encoding" to adjust the character set and see which one works.

Joshua.

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