From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alexander Wuerstlein <snalwuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: webmaster@kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KORG] Encoding problem with the git documentation
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A39CEA.7020703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070722174915.GI26471@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
>
> There are 2 resolutions for this problem, changing the charset the webserver
> delivers in the response headers or recoding the html to be utf-8. One
> possibility to fix the response headers would be to use the 'AddDefaultCharset'
> directive (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/de/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset)
> like 'AddDefaultCharset Off' or 'AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1'.
> This could also be set in .htaccess, so the persons responsible for the subtree
> can control the charset by themselves without your interaction. Of course
> the right solution depends on your setup which you know best about :)
>
We're aware of this problem, and the first answer is the right one --
this is 2007 and UTF-8 is what we should use everywhere.
However, the second option (using .htaccess) is available.
-hpa
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-22 18:14 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20070722174915.GI26471@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
2007-07-22 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-22 20:19 ` [KORG] gitweb down? Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 20:21 ` Never mind (Re: [KORG] gitweb down?) Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
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