Topic: HowTo on getting Apache2 to understand swedish letters

[Siddus]

Hello, Sidddus here.
I am having big problems with getting Apache2 to understand swedish letters (Å,Ä.Ö ...)
in names of files and directorys, the weird thing is that this workes without a problem with Apache 1.3x but ever since I moved up to Apache2 this has never worked ??
I have even tried to run Apache 1.3x and Apache 2.x on the same machine with the php and mysql - settings and I only get it to work on Apache 1.3x ??
The thing is that I use php to display all the content on my webserver so if it would be a php-error then it wouldn't display the content properly with Apache 1.3x !!!
All help in this matter is appreciated so that I can get my pages to function correctly ..

Siddus

[Steffen]

What charcterset you have in the directive : AddDefaultCharset ?

Steffen

[Siddus]

I have tried :
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
and
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-15
and
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
and
AddDefaultCharset Off
All I can figure out is that Apache 2.x has a different way of writing the URI
than Apache 1.3x uses ??
Any clues as to change that ??

Siddus

[James Blond]

Did you try to set your language first at LanguagePriority
Is it se? Also set AddDefaultCharset utf-8
But sometimes that do not work with the newer Browsers. Why? They don't accept the Charset from the Apache, they search in the document. If there is none set browser will use a default one. So put the right meta tag into your documents.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="language" content="se" />
Is the se for sweden correct?

[Siddus]

I have tried setting the first LanguagePriority to sv, but nothing changes.
Have also tried to set AddDefaultCharset utf-8, no change.
I think that it is sv for sweden, thanks for the meta tag example, will try that and check back with the results .

Siddus