reopen 415775 retitle 415775 default setup enables AddDefaultCharset, which is considered harmful severity 415775 important thanks
Hi, > I sought more opinions on this issue. People were split, and Steinar > Gunderson brought up the good point that it doesn't make too much sense > to specify a character encoding for a text file _within_ the same text > file. Sure, it works for many encodings, but it doesn't work for > UTF-16, and there are reasons one might want to use that. And some > people were saying that <meta http-equiv> is actually the greater evil. This argument convinced me at first, but thinking more about it, it looks flawed. For two reasons: - We have standards for these things. Either an HTML is W3C-compliant or it is not. If it is, then apache must be able to parse its <meta http-equiv> even if this tag is non-ascii. If it's not, then we shouldn't jump through hoops to support this in the default install. Standard-broken sites can enable AddDefaultCharset manualy. - In our particular case, we're setting AddDefaultCharset to assume utf-8, *not* utf-16 or any other ill charset. If charset $foobar rewrites "<meta http-equiv>" in a way that apache can't parse, we don't gain anything by telling apache to assume utf-8, since their charset is $foobar. For the latter case, though, I think it'd be a good idea to add some sort of template: # do not uncomment unless you know what you're doing #AddDefaultCharset something > So for apache2 2.2.3-4, I've left the AddDefaultCharset=UTF-8 enabled > for new installs. I _did_ stop it from creating this file in an > existing install, which was the point of this bug. Much better. IMHO this is no longer RC, since it doesn't suddenly break sites on upgrade. I'd appreciate if it still could be fixed for etch, though. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
