Re: Encoding Issue for .ly Files on CPDL

> On 2 Jun 2026, at 19:42, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 2 Jun 2026, at 19:24, Hans Aikema <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 2 Jun 2026, at 19:21, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> On 2 Jun 2026, at 18:53, Silvain Dupertuis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> I tried this, no success..
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>>> The HTTP header says “content-encoding: gzip”. A net search suggests it should be:
>>> content-encoding: text/xml; charset=utf-8
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>> No, content-encoding is yet another header, that shows how the bytes-on-the-line are encoded, which in this case are sent as a gzip compressed bytestream (HTTP transport compression)
>> Content-type defines what the bytes on the wire represent
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> The page below says one can use:
> Accept-Charset: utf-8
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields

Again… not a solution, the only solution is to fix up the HTTP Response headers that describe the data that is transferred back to the browser, which is the Content-Type


What worked for me on a local test starting with the httpd Docker image:

on httpd.conf override the default configuration for AllowOverride of FileInfo in .htaccess:

DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs">
….
   AllowOverride FileInfo
…
</Directory>

and then in .htaccess for a folder that servers .ly files:

AddCharset UTF8 .ly
AddType text/x-lilypond .ly


Which also explains why Sylvain’s configuration is not working: the site that showed configuration used an improper directive, the right directive is AddCharset, not AddDefaultCharset (which is meant to indicate the default charset to specify for text/plain and text/html)
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset


so in httpd.conf configuration it also works (also adding the extension frequently used for include files) if you add (typically inside the <IfModule mime_module> block):

    AddType text/x-lilypond .ly .ily
    AddCharset UTF8 .ly .ily