Another possibility is a small one but maybe its the problem. Apache serves ErrorDocuments by default using iso, the same can be said for Apache-generated directory index pages. Depending on the version of Apache you are using, you can change this.

I’m looking for a solution –
I have an Apache server (shared) and the default charset is utf-8, but when I write things in French the chars are showed as little cubes.

So when I put in my meta tags I get weird chars showing up because I’m not using UTF.

So either I’m using UTF and get french cubes or ISO-8859 and get cubes but in both ways i get errors in my text… Please help me

But I associated application/xhtml+xml with .html files, and these guys are acting like ‘content-negotiation’. is terrorism or something. This site’s the best, of all the ones I’ve seen, but I am not going to redo web sites as PHP, just to feed Explorer some nice 1994 quirks mode bs. So, I am still looking for an htaccess or mod_rewrite idea that can simply deal some nice html to Windows, and let real deal pass through to everybody else.

I’m about ready to just put a portal up with a click here or click there ‘choice’ for Win IE here, everybody else over there. if the guys back at CECOM even knew I was thinking of this idea, I’d be mud. Why are all these other guys writing xhtml and then stripping it of any possible benefits to go out as html? That seems irrational. I heard that with xhtml 1.1 that text/xml won’t even validate, so what are these xhtml guys planning on next? But the site is terrific, I wish I understood the context, a lot more, of some of these principles and methods.

SetEnvIf HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE ^zh.* I_AM_CHINESE
 
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from I_AM_CHINESE
AuthName "Authorized Users Only."
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile .htpasswd
require valid user
satisfy any

Any help is appreciated :)

my php.ini:

default_mimetype = "text/html"
default_charset = "utf-8"

my apache httpd.conf:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

my page encoding: utf-8 without bom.

after i check my page server headers result:

content-type:   text/html; charset=UTF-8, text/html; charset=UTF-8

Why have two values ???

after disabled this line to:

#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 and
#default_charset = "utf-8"

restart my apache:

refresh my page… wrong character encodings on this my page…. please help me.. (sorry my english not enough)

one question, you mentioned making the cgi-bin directory in my website’s document root with this command:

mkdir -p cgi-bin

I’ve already made a cgi-bin directory one directory before my website directory, this is where I have the python script I run to make my google sitemap. Is this where I should be putting the files, or does it go into my website root?

I remember hearing somewhere that putting certain files in a webspace would be a security risk.

brent

How in the world do you survive without a custom php.ini? I run dreamhost as well and heres how to get running in 3 minutes. First, login via ssh cd to your websites document root and then run these commands.

1. mkdir -p cgi-bin
2. cp -rp /dh/cgi-system/php5.cgi .
3. cp -rp /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini .

Now add this to your root .htaccess

AddHandler php-cgi .php .htm
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php5.cgi

Ok? Good now you can do everything I talk about.

The problem is that I can’t get to php.ini since I’m on a shared host (dreamhost) they run php as cgi.

I put these lines in the beginning of all the files and it seems to have worked,

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

but it’d be much nicer to use .htaccess or just have it declared once somewhere instead of on every file.

brent