[CentOS] Server displaying ?

[Jay Leafey]

scott wrote:
> I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look.  Since
> moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
> server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a "?" anywhere I
> have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see the "
> " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a vertical
> bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a different
> browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm seeing a ? on
> the display, instead of the non-breaking space.
> 
> Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct
> this?

We ran into this, too.  Look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and find the 
line that reads:

     AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Comment it out and add a line just below it that reads:

     AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1

Then restart or reload Apache.  The problem is that the default 
configuration sets the default character set for all pages to UTF-8 
instead of the 'real' default of iso-8859-1, AKA latin1.  There's a nice 
little block of comments just above it that explains what it is all about.

Hope that helps!
-- 
Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN
jay.leafey at mindless.com
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