Hi Joshua, Thanks very much for the suggestion. I changed the AddDefaultCharset directive as you suggested and it now works. Thanks again Neil > > From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx> > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed AM 11:42:04 EDT > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Problem displaying French characters > > On 5/24/06, neilparkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <neilparkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using what appears to be Apache 2.0.52 (the rpm package states it is httpd-2.0.52-22) on a CentOS 4 Linux system. I am trying to make some documentation available on our intranet so that it is accessible to our French subsidiary but I noticed that any accented characters in the text are appearing as strange characters. I am assuming this is something to do with fonts but have been unable to find a solution. My httpd.conf file is pretty much unchanged from the default installation other than being edited to change the server name and enable Server Side Includes. > > > > If I load the HTML into my browser directly from my local disk it looks fine but as soon as it is served via the web server I see the problem. > > Look in httpd.conf for the AddDefaultCharset directive and either > change it to "none" or set it to something that makes sense for your > content. > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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