[Athens-pm] Question: unicode perl output html

[Alexander Karelas]

Indeed. I tried it on my server, and the META tag cannot override the 
setting of the apache server's http header. So as long as Apache sets 
charset=iso-8859-7 the page will appear in that charset.

Alex



Angelos Karageorgiou wrote:

>Your problem is that your apache server is defaulting to iso-8859-7
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>lynx --head http://www.netclipping.gr/utf.htm
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>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 07:36:43 GMT
>Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
>Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:13:43 GMT
>ETag: "74ee0-a9b-23c7fc0"
>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>Content-Length: 2715
>Connection: close
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7
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>On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Giorgos Epitidios wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:13:10 +0300
>>From: Giorgos Epitidios <gepiti at gepiti.com>
>>To: athens-pm at mail.pm.org
>>Subject: [Athens-pm] Question: unicode perl output html
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>>Hi all,
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>>I have a perl script (perl 5.8.0) that writes unicode greek html text.
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>>Mozilla and Internet Explorer for windows can show the greek text correctly if the user manually specifies the encoding (ie from View - Encoding - Unicode) but the browsers do not recognize it automatically. You can see an example at http://www.netclipping.gr/utf.htm
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>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Giorgos Epitidios
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