Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 14521 invoked by uid 6000); 6 Feb 2000 18:33:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 14514 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2000 18:33:20 -0000 Received: from firewall-in.sch57.msk.ru (HELO dell.sch57.msk.ru) (root@195.178.195.6) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 6 Feb 2000 18:33:20 -0000 Received: from khim.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by dell.sch57.msk.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA12922; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:22:43 +0300 Received: by khim.sch57.msk.ru (dMail for DOS v2.07a2, 12Jun98); Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:24:13 +0300 To: new-httpd@apache.org, jim@jaguNET.com References: <200002041339.IAA22053@devsys.jaguNET.com> Message-Id: Organization: MCCME From: "Khimenko Victor" Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:24:13 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.07a2] Subject: Re: AddDefaultCharset Lines: 36 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Status: O 4-Feb-00 08:39 you wrote: JJ> The *conf*dist files should include that, commented out, of course. JJ> Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Um, sorry, forgot to add: >> >> why not ship the default config with >> >> AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1 >> >> so that it is explicit and easy enough to change to 'none' or whatever the >> site needs? >> Hmm. I'm not sure if my comment is stupid or not (I lost my mail for January so I've not seen start of discussion). But anyway: do you know that if you have charset= in HTTP headers of server answer AND in .html file (as META) both Netscape and MS IE will use charset from .html file and NOT from HTTP server answer ? All versions: from ancient 2.x to Netscape Communicator 4.x ... MS IE is also affected (though I'm not exactly sure which versions: I'm not use this beast much; MS IE 4.0 and 5.0 looks unaffected)... This is real problem for russian web sites so mod_charset even has special handler to strip out all