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Re: Debian UTF-8, Mandrake UTF-8, and Apache UTF-8


Edward H. Trager wrote:

Thanks, Pablo!

You have a good point that perhaps Apache should have no encoding
set by default, thus forcing everyone to read the documentation and
make a decision.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this?



I think that HTTP's "Content-Type: text/html" should automatically imply
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8", like xml does. But since thats not the
case I configure my apache server to be explicit. (the HTTP setting seems to
override any META tags in individual pages, but I'm fine with that.)

For the most part, I think that even having a choice of encoding is a source
of problems, and it'd probably be better all around if it simply wasnt configurable,
outside of conversion programs such as iconv. I think its high time to treat
encoding as a solved problem and move on to the trickier aspects of i18n.



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