Recently I setup Apache-2.2.17 on Windows Server 2003, and config viewvc in CGI mode, viewvc works fine except browsing repository entry which contains Chinese characters, it will return HTTP 404 when browsing these entryies, I asked in viewvc-users mailing list, they said CGI will interact with system using the locale is in use by the environment in which it's running( http://viewvc.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4255&dsMessageId=2686631 ). I tried a small shell CGI script like the following ################################################################################ #!C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe # test.sh # Environment Variable echo Content-type: text/html echo echo "<html>" echo "<head>" echo "<title>" echo "CGI Environment Variable" echo "</title>" echo "</head>" echo "<body>" echo "SERVER_SOFTWARE=$SERVER_SOFTWARE<br/>" echo "SERVER_NAME=$SERVER_NAME<br/>" echo "SERVER_PROTOCOL=$SERVER_PROTOCOL<br/>" echo "SERVER_PORT=$SERVER_PORT<br/>" echo "REQUEST_METHOD=$REQUEST_METHOD<br/>" echo "GATEWAY_INTERFACE=$GATEWAY_INTERFACE<br/>" echo "PATH_INFO=$PATH_INFO<br/>" echo "PATH_TRANSLATED=$PATH_TRANSLATED<br/>" echo "REMOTE_HOST=$REMOTE_HOST<br/>" echo "REMOTE_ADDR=$REMOTE_ADDR<br/>" echo "REMOTE_IDENT=$REMOTE_IDENT<br/>" echo "SCRIPT_NAME=$SCRIPT_NAME<br/>" echo "QUERY_STRING=$QUERY_STRING<br/>" echo "CONTENT_TYPE=$CONTENT_TYPE<br/>" echo "CONTENT_LENGTH=$CONTENT_LENGTH<br/>" echo "<pre>" /bin/env echo "</pre>" echo "</body>" echo "</html>" exit 0 ################################################################################ and tried 2 URLs in different encoding: UTF-8 and GBK. "äæ" in UTF-8 encoding URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-test.sh/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87 "äæ" in GBK encoding URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-test.sh/%D6%D0%CE%C4 The binary value of Chinese characters in the result HTML are not correct. UTF-8: src : E4 B8 AD E6 96 87 dest:C3 A4 C2 B8 C2 AD C3 A6 C2 96 C2 87 GBK: src : D6 D0 CE C4 dest:C3 96 C3 90 C3 8E C3 84 I also try add "SetEnv LC_ALL zh_CN.GBK" or "SetEnv LC_ALL zh_CN.UTF-8" in httpd.conf which suggested by viewvc-users mailing list, and even tried add windows system environment variable LC_ALL, but it doesn't help, am I missed something or mod_cgi does not support multibyte characters in REQUEST_URI? Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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