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From: "Dr. Praveen Bhatia" <praveen.bhatia@sumpurn.com>
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Subject: RE: UTF-8 setting for Japanese characters
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:53:26 +0900
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Thanks David. The links discussing these UTF-8 issues were very educative
indeed. Taking a clue from them, I contacted our web hoster and asked them
to change the default setting of charset=ISO-8859-1 which was overriding ALL
meta tag charset settings.
 
Things work now, and UTF-8 is recognized correctly.

Thanks for the information and help.

Best wishes
Praveen


-----Original Message-----
From: David Crossley [mailto:crossley@apache.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:25 AM
To: user@forrest.apache.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 setting for Japanese characters

David Crossley wrote:
> Dr. Praveen Bhatia wrote:
> > 
> > Clearly, the charset is not getting set to UTF-8 in spite of settings
that I
> > did in forrest.properties, web.xml forrest.xconf, sitemap.xmap (xml
> > serializer and html serializer).
> > 
> >   What settings I could be missing?
> 
> Some time in the past we had similar issues for our forrest.a.o site.
> 
> See $FORREST_HOME/site-author/content/.htaccess
> 
> #----------------
> # FIXME: Do we still need this? See FOR-877
> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
> #----------------
> 
> That issue links to a some other issues which might provide
> some background.

Ah, following through from
 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-877
to the linked issue:
 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23421
provides very educational reading on this matter.

-David