From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [KORG] Encoding problem with the git documentation Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:38 -0700 Message-ID: <46A39CEA.7020703@zytor.com> References: <20070722174915.GI26471@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: webmaster@kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Wuerstlein X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 22 20:14:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ICfwi-0004b1-4g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:14:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758095AbXGVSOS (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:14:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762019AbXGVSOL (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:14:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40884 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760637AbXGVSOD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:14:03 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-67-169-144-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.144.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6MI7eNg023171 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:40 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6MI7e6P007394; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:40 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6MI7c7m020849; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:39 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) In-Reply-To: <20070722174915.GI26471@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3728/Sat Jul 21 22:07:30 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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