Jay: > 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! This did the trick. Thanks VERY much Jay. I figured teh problem was related to that parameter, but just didnt' know what to do with it. My old .cof file had it the same way (UTF-8) but not the behavior. But in any case, this fixed it. MUCH appreciated. Best, Scott