[oclug] Apache

[Dan Langille]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:18:12PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Kevin Li wrote:
> >
> > > At my coop job, we recently changed our webserver from MS IIS to Apache 1.3x. I
> > > was working on our website today when I discovered that for some reason Apache
> > > couldn't display apostrophes (ex. mike's car) in linked text. Is there some
> > > escape character for the apostrophe in Apache. Currently the apostrophe is
> > > displayed as a box.
> >
> > Compare the source with the output here:
> >
> > http://www.langille.org/test.phps
> > http://www.langille.org/test.php
> >
> > That works.  If it doesn't, it must be your browser.
>
> Well, no.  It could easily be a character set issue.  Maybe they're using
> the windows character set in their "html" documents and MSIE would default
> to cp1252 and Apache is defaulting to iso8859-1.  Without being given an
> example of the page that's causing problems, it's impossible to diagnose.

When I said "if it doesn't", the "it" refers to my example.  If my example
works, then we have a simple test case which they can elaborate upon.  If
it doesn't, it must be something in their browser.  Have I overlooked
something?  There's no encoding in my example.

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Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/