On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 01:08, Zach Uram <netrek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh-cn"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> > > I think my Apache is not serving the GB2312 charset. So I looked here: Apache does not "serve" character sets. Apache will pass a html page on to the browser, which will render it. The browser guesses what charset the use to display the page based on a lot of different items. Headers passed along with the response, meta headers in the html etc... Sometimes the browser guesses wrongly what the correct character set is. You can then set the charset manually (in firefox choose view/character encoding) and this ought to make the page render correctly. Offcourse you want this to happen automatically. Your problem is probably due to apache not responding with the correct content-type header. What you should do is the following: - Use a tool that allows you to see the whole request, including headers. You are allready using wget, you could use the following command: wget --debug <url>, and use this to fetch both the page from the original server and from your own server. Watch the "Content-Type" header. If this header is not correct on your server you have found the cause of your problem. If your server sends the wrong content-type header (which I'm fairly sure is the source of your problem) you need to indeed add an "AddCharset" directive. This directive looks like this: AddCharset <character map> <extention> So AddCharset gb2312 .gb would add charset gb2312 to the content-type header for all files with an extention ending in .gb. So you would need to rename all your files encoded in gb2312. The same would apply if you want to use big5 encoding. If all your gb2312 encoded files are in the same directory (or in directories sharing a common root) than you could use something like this: <Directory /var/www/chinesesite/> AddDefaultCharset gb2312 </Directory> This way all files from this directory will get served with a content-type header with the gb2312 charset. A last tip: If you rename all your gb2312 encoded files to something like index.html.gb you don't need to change all the links to these pages if you set the following option. Option +Multiviews This way if a request comes for index.html, but no index.html exists apache will search for index.html.*. You couuld then even have both an index.html.gb and index.html.big5 with the proper character set assigned to each using AddCharset. Apache will then serve one of both files when a request for index.html comes, depending on what the browser prefers. Krist -- krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx krist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland -- A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? A: Top-posting. Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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