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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Richard Crawford <rc...@unexmail.ucdavis.edu> on 2003/07/03 21:52:34 UTC
[users@httpd] International Characters and Apache 2.0.45
We have Apache 2.0.45 running on Solaris 9 with Cold Fusion MX. We've
noticed that our server is not properly serving up international
characters, which is bad since one of our courses is a Spanish class. I'm
sure that there is a setting I can adjust in Apache to fix this up, but I'm
at a loss as to what it is.
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Re: [users@httpd] International Characters and Apache 2.0.45
Posted by Richard Crawford <rc...@unexmail.ucdavis.edu>.
At 04:30 PM 7/3/2003 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote:
>If nobody around here can help you, I'd suggest a cold fusion forum, or
>see if you can find some html experts with experience in i18n.
Hey, if nothing else, the hint that it might be more closely related to
Cold Fusion than Apache is greatly appreciated!
Thanks. I'll poke around my CF resources.
Richard
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Re: [users@httpd] International Characters and Apache 2.0.45
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Richard Crawford wrote:
> "The problem is this: we have as part of our website a Spanish class, which
> requires students to input their replies in a form by entering special
> characters (e.g., ù or á or ¿) using the alt keys and their numeric
> keypad. [ALT}=[1][6][8] produces ¿ foe xample. But when the form is sent
> to the instructor, the special characters are presented as an = sign plus a
> hexadecimal code.
>
> "I suspect that this is going to turn out to be an Apache issue, but I'm
> not sure; it was working fine when we were using WindowsNT with IIS and
> Cold Fusion (note: I am not saying "WindowsNT is better than Unix"; may God
> strike me dead if I utter such blasphemy)."
Ewww, i18n in forms is a nasty issue. I know virtually nothing about it,
but there is a good article here:
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html
I think it is very unlikely that apache has anything to do with the
problem, however. The browser is doing the correct thing in escaping the
characters, and then the server-side script (cold fusion in this case)
needs to be able to recode to whatever you want in the end.
If nobody around here can help you, I'd suggest a cold fusion forum, or
see if you can find some html experts with experience in i18n.
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] International Characters and Apache 2.0.45
Posted by Richard Crawford <rc...@unexmail.ucdavis.edu>.
At 04:01 PM 7/3/2003 -0400, Joshua Silve wrote:
>Hmmm... Like "InternationalCharacters On" ;-0 (That's a joke.)
>
>Perhaps if you reported EXACTLY what was happening, and included an
>Internet-accessible URL showing the problem, then more people could help.
>
>A clue to get you started: See the AddCharset directive in mod_mime.
Unfortunately, I can't give a publically-accessible URL for confidentiality
reasons, but here is a fuller explanation of the problem, which I sent to a
buddy of mine:
"To be honest, I have no idea where to even begin with this one -- whether
it's a Solaris issue, an Apache issue, a Cold Fusion issue, or a JRun issue.
"The problem is this: we have as part of our website a Spanish class, which
requires students to input their replies in a form by entering special
characters (e.g., ù or á or ¿) using the alt keys and their numeric
keypad. [ALT}=[1][6][8] produces ¿ foe xample. But when the form is sent
to the instructor, the special characters are presented as an = sign plus a
hexadecimal code.
"I suspect that this is going to turn out to be an Apache issue, but I'm
not sure; it was working fine when we were using WindowsNT with IIS and
Cold Fusion (note: I am not saying "WindowsNT is better than Unix"; may God
strike me dead if I utter such blasphemy)."
Hope that clears things up at least a bit.
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Re: [users@httpd] International Characters and Apache 2.0.45
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Richard Crawford wrote:
> We have Apache 2.0.45 running on Solaris 9 with Cold Fusion MX. We've
> noticed that our server is not properly serving up international
> characters, which is bad since one of our courses is a Spanish class. I'm
> sure that there is a setting I can adjust in Apache to fix this up, but I'm
> at a loss as to what it is.
Hmmm... Like "InternationalCharacters On" ;-0 (That's a joke.)
Perhaps if you reported EXACTLY what was happening, and included an
Internet-accessible URL showing the problem, then more people could help.
A clue to get you started: See the AddCharset directive in mod_mime.
Joshua.
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