Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Because that page is served with UTF-8 by Apache. What you want to do is comment that line in the Apache config out. It's a really stupid setting, not really understandable why they put it in the default config.

The apache docs state that it does no harm and there are some security reasons for having a default

# Specify a default charset for all pages sent out. This is # always a good idea and opens the door for future internationalisation # of your web site, should you ever want it. Specifying it as # a default does little harm; as the standard dictates that a page # is in iso-8859-1 (latin1) unless specified otherwise i.e. you # are merely stating the obvious. There are also some security # reasons in browsers, related to javascript and URL parsing # which encourage you to always set a default char set. #

Spike.

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Spike Turner wrote on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:00:54 -0700 (PDT):

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The apache docs state that it does no harm

well, that's wrong. Change alle your pages to be UTF-8 or remove it.

Yepp. Most charset problems I've found within apache came from that setting.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/en/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset says that it can do harm.

Ralph