[Typo3] charset troubles

Robert Lemke robert at typo3.org
Sat Sep 3 16:28:25 CEST 2005


Hi folks,

Carles Codina wrote:

> Only one hypothesis : several days ago I had problems with the charset in
> another context without Typo3, and learned that my problem was on the
> header that send my server. On my html I had UTF-8 but the Apache on my
> server send it a header with "charset=iso-8859-1". I could catch this,
> when I validated my page against http://validator.w3.org/ I needed to ask
> to my hosting provider to change this parameter.

That's a common problem - the browser will ignore any charset settings if
the server sends a different setting in its header. 

If you run an apache and have control over it, you have to set
"AddDefaultCharset off" in your httpd.conf.

-- 
Robert Lemke
TYPO3 Association - Research & Development
Member of the board
http://association.typo3.org




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