Font problem

nuthernewbie · 03-25-2005, 08:52 AM

If I am in the wrong thread, please tell me the right one.

The problem is that one of the websites that I run on my FC2 apache server has all of the umlauts changed to "?". It appears that I have apache configured properly, but I am not sure. If I view the index.html file directly, it is fine, view it through the server, the umlauts are changed.
I have done a search for this problem but don't find anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jamo · 03-28-2005, 08:20 AM

After I got Apache 2.0 I noticed same thing.

Good (and recommended) solution is to use defined HTML entities.
so for example replace letter ä with &auml; and and letter ö with &ouml; and so on.

HTML 4.0 entities list:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ht...es/latin1.html

nuthernewbie · 03-28-2005, 08:38 AM

Hi Jamo, Thank you for your reply to my post. This information that you shared is good. IAfter I had posted here, I continued to do some research and found someone that had the exact same problem.
The solution was simple:

In the httpd.conf file find the line that contains "UTF-8" (similar to "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8") and change it to "AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1". Save it and restart the server and it all worked just perfectly.

Again, thank you for your help, it is appreciated.