[oclug] Apache

[Mark Harrison]

Kevin,

Welcome to the LUG. Given how gracious they are to someone ignorant like me
who's not even from the right continent, then I'm sure you'll be welcome.

To turn to your question, Apache has no inherent problem displaying the
escape character, however a particular configuration MIGHT do so.

I'm afraid that I'm exclusively using Apache 2 now, so the examples I give
are may be subtley wrong for your server.

However, in your Apache configuration file you should see a section that
looks similar to the following. If you could post your corresponding section
in a reply, it might help resolve this.

The section will contain lots of references to "CharSets", which are one of
the things involved in how servers tell browsers to attempt to render
"text", bearing in mind that these days "text" contains not only the 1,2,3,
a,b,c you're used to but Alpha, Beta... Aleph, Bet... and things in Cyrillic
that I can't even pronounce.

The most likely difference you may find is the "AddDefaultCharset" line. I
find that setting to the ISO standard works well - setting to one of the
Windows ones may be less useful unless you can EXACTLY pin down the
configuration of all the web browsers that will access your site. (Viable in
a corporate Intranet, not viable for public websites.)

Regards,

Mark

My section follows:
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AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
AddCharset ISO-8859-1  .iso8859-1 .latin1
AddCharset ISO-8859-2  .iso8859-2 .latin2 .cen
AddCharset ISO-8859-3  .iso8859-3 .latin3
AddCharset ISO-8859-4  .iso8859-4 .latin4
AddCharset ISO-8859-5  .iso8859-5 .latin5 .cyr .iso-ru
AddCharset ISO-8859-6  .iso8859-6 .latin6 .arb
AddCharset ISO-8859-7  .iso8859-7 .latin7 .grk
AddCharset ISO-8859-8  .iso8859-8 .latin8 .heb
AddCharset ISO-8859-9  .iso8859-9 .latin9 .trk
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .iso2022-jp .jis
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso2022-kr .kis
AddCharset ISO-2022-CN .iso2022-cn .cis
AddCharset Big5        .Big5       .big5
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251   .win-1251
AddCharset CP866       .cp866
AddCharset KOI8-r      .koi8-r .koi8-ru
AddCharset KOI8-ru     .koi8-uk .ua
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8       .utf8
AddCharset GB2312      .gb2312 .gb
AddCharset utf-7       .utf7
AddCharset utf-8       .utf8
AddCharset big5        .big5 .b5
AddCharset EUC-TW      .euc-tw
AddCharset EUC-JP      .euc-jp
AddCharset EUC-KR      .euc-kr
AddCharset shift_jis   .sjis