Bug#397886: apache2.2-common: non wanted behaviour during upgrade: charset MUST not be created without user consent
I globally agree with you but why one would want to break a working
environment ?
We don't have necessary the time to adapt all web site on the planet to
the new implementations.
I don't say that this implementation is not good, that's probably the
best way to manage new contents as utf8 is speading : * but the best is
the good's evil * !!!!!
I just wanted that this behaviour be an option for the administrator to
choose, and not a default of debian. Debian, which is, indeed, imho, the
best solution for long-term operating support, has to be clear with its
logic.
Best regards,
Michel
Le vendredi 10 novembre 2006 à 17:24 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson a
écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:36:10AM +0100, Michel Briand wrote:
> > mozilla selects utf8 if apache told him that its the default - even if the
> > page designer used the content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" in headers
>
> Well.
>
> AddDefaultCharset simply sets the default character set when the page does
> not specify one; that is, Apache by default sends something like
>
> Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>
> instead of
>
> Content-type: text/html
>
> Of course, any page is free to send a different content type, in which case
> the default won't matter (Apache never sends it). For instance, in Perl:
>
> print $cgi->header(-type=>'text/html; charset=iso-8859-15');
>
> or in PHP:
>
> header('Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15');
>
> There are also ways of setting this explicitly for static pages (via
> .htaccess and/or .meta files); see the Apache documentation for more
> details.
>
> Now, what you are probably thinking of is the following abomination:
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15">
> </head>
>
> It is true that a Content-type: header with a character set will override
> this. However, using http-equiv is strongly discouraged in general, and has
> been so for years -- after all, what character set would the browser assume
> for the <meta> tag? (And if you were serving non-HTML content, like plain
> text, how would you specify the character set information if not in the HTTP
> headers?) I have nothing to do with Apache maintenance, but you should at
> least be aware that if this is indeed what you're doing, you shouldn't be
> surprised when it breaks...
>
> /* Steinar */
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