[Mapbender-dev] Discussion: Character sets (client encoding)

[Michael Schulz]

Hi,

>>
>> If you define a default character set in apache (AddDefaultCharset)
>> this overrides all settings set via meta-tags, because apache settings
>> are in the http-header.
>>
>
> I meant explicitly sending http headers in PHP. Is this overridden by
> Apache?

Ok - not sure, but I think this directive only adds a charset header
entry when none is specified beforehand. So it should be ok, but I'm
not an absolut apache expert - we'll probably have to check that.

Michael

>
> Christoph
>
>
>> Cheers, Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Just playing devil's advocat, I think we'll eliminate a lot of
>>>> problmes with that.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2008/7/16 Christoph Baudson <christoph.baudson at wheregroup.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Arnulf Christl schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christoph Baudson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is a proposal to serve UTF-8 encoded HTML pages only. In my
>>>>>>> opinion
>>>>>>> there is no need to serve ISO-8859-1 pages.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All character set conversions (when interacting with a database)
>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> done in PHP. So the architecture would change from
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> client: ISO/UTF8
>>>>>>> server: UTF8
>>>>>>> database: ISO/UTF8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> client: ISO/UTF8
>>>>>>> server: UTF8
>>>>>>> database: ISO/UTF8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This will simplify things a lot and would make Mapbender less
>>>>>>> error-prone. If anyone has any reason why we should still serve ISO
>>>>>>> pages,
>>>>>>> please step up. I have no idea why we should.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christoph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You confuse me, I cannot see the difference?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> neither do I.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's what I meant
>>>>>
>>>>> client: UTF8
>>>>> server: UTF8
>>>>> database: ISO/UTF8
>>>>>
>>>>> Christoph
>>>>>
>>>>> nr: copy and paste for beginners
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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