Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:51:58 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:

> Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure
> to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? I cut/pasted some
> text from a RTF document and when I load the document via
> http://server/document.html it is a bunch of gibberish and the foreign
> characters (in this case Japanese) is not rendered. I even added:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> 
> to the HTML file but this made no difference.

Before blaming you apache2, make a quick test with external sites:

http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
http://www.yahoo.cn/?loop=true

Do they render fine? If no, you need to install some japanese or chinese 
fonts on the client side ;-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón