Re: [xsl] Perl workaround for XSLT escaped UTF-8 pass-thru to XHTML

[Gan Uesli Starling <alias@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Brown wrote:
> Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
>
> > Solved! My generic installation of Apache 2 on NetBSD 1.6
> > held this line...
> >
> > AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
> >
> > ...so I changed it to...
> >
> > AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
> >
> > ...then re-started Apache and that fixed it.
>
>
> You should remove the line altogether, or change it to
> AddDefaultCharset Off
>
> ...unless you are certain that every single text/* document you serve is going
> to be UTF-8 encoded. You are in effect overriding the meta tags altogether by
> using this feature.
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset
>
> Mike

That makes sense, I will try that.

The ex-post-facto escaping of Unicode via Perl, interestingly,
seems to overcome that Apache option regardless. I will retain
the Perl script as a hedge against such time as when I might
encounter a similar problem on a server which is not under my
control.

Thanks for the help.

Gan

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