Re: Accented characters

David Powers wrote:

> steve wrote:
>>  So it looks as though the shared hosting service
>> might also have utf-8 set - which would surprise me because Apache
>> defaults to iso-8859-1 and the hosting firm has opted for defaults in
>> most cases.
> 
> Apache 2 defaults to utf-8.

The shared hosting server is Apache 1.3.

Apache 2 is also somewhat confusing in the mod_mime-defaults.conf file
which, as it came installed on the SuSE distro, strongly suggests the
default is iso-8859-1.

I've now determined that the shared host MySQL server is using latin1 (I
managed to ssh into it and used myisamchk). My local MySQL server is the
same. I dumped the db table from the live server and uploaded it to my
local one just to double-check I'm using the same data. Using the same
browser, the accents work fine viewing the page delivered by my local
server as utf-8, but are buggered when delivered as iso-8859-1 (ie, when I
change the Apache AddDefaultCharset setting). From the shared host server,
it's the other way around - the accents are fine when the page is viewed as
iso-8859-1 - don't work as utf-8.

Unfortunately, the hosting company's first response to me question about
what encoding is used on their Apache set-up was little better than 'huh?'.
So I've fired off a somewhat more detailed query.

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Steve

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