From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:07:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [KORG] Encoding problem with the git documentation
Message-ID: <46A39CEA.7020703@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070722174915.GI26471@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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