Apache :: Adding characters

Bobscrachy · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Texas

What do I need to do to add special characters to apache?

James Blond

Where do you want to add "special characters"? In httpd.conf or your webpages?

Bobscrachy · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Texas

I would imagine probably the conf. I'm using the autoindex to display files and some of the descriptions for these files have special characters that apache doesn't display properly.

I'm thinking its a charset issue, but i wouldn't know how to create a custom charset or set apache to use it if i did.

Bobscrachy · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Texas

Lets say i was wanting to change the autoindex output to french. How would I do it?

tdonovan

One way is to use the HTML character escape sequences, like é and Ç.

For example:

Bobscrachy · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Texas

That looks simple enough, thank you.

Bobscrachy · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Texas

I have good news. Here is a more broad solution to this question.

It required not only assigning the default charset but actually encoding the htaccess file in utf-8 too.

Took me awhile to figure that one out.

Thank you for your input.

here is the the difference.

http://bobscrachy.redirectme.net

This was a version of the descriptions it was spitting out before.