Re: Encoding Issue for .ly Files on CPDL

Hello everyone.
There is an explanation of this page 
<https://ubiq.co/tech-blog/how-to-set-default-charset-to-utf-8-encoding-in-apache-using-htaccess/>
I tried this locally... with no success so far.

Le 02.06.26 à 17:24, Gabriel Ellsworth a écrit :
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> Thank you, Sven.
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> On Tue, 2 Jun 2026, Sven Axelsson wrote:
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>     All the files linked from that forum post are served as images as can be seen from
>     the url (https://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/e/eb/Alma-2026-02.ly)
>     That probably means that they are interpreted as raw binary instead of utf-8.
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> Here is my current understanding of the problem and potential solution.
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> The problem:
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> CPDL’s server currently interprets .ly files as raw binary instead of UTF-8 and delivers 
> the files to browsers as generic binary uploads.
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> … and the solution would be:
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> Adjust CPDL’s web server or MediaWiki configuration so that .ly files are delivered to 
> browsers as text/plain; charset=UTF-8.
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> Do I have that right? (I asked AI for help, so it very well could be wrong!)
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> At Help:Special characters - MediaWiki 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters>, I read that “MediaWiki uses 
> Unicode (UTF-8) for character encoding,” so my hope is that this would be an easy fix 
> for CPDL.
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> By the way, would anyone reading this message be willing to forward this thread to 
> Nancho Álvarez? I tried an email address that I found on his website, but my message 
> could not be delivered. I would like to ask him how he makes his website work well in 
> this regard.
>

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