Re: [SumsaultRT #212] example of sending correct headers with Apache?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:54:05PM +0200, Dominique Haza?l-Massieux wrote:
> Le mer 24/09/2003 ? 17:51, Mark Stosberg a ?crit :
> > I was just reading here about character encodings:
> >
> > Down in section C.9, it states: "the best approach is to ensure that the
> > web server provides the correct headers. "
> > 
> > I would like to do this, but I'm unsure of how to configure my Apache
> > web server to send the correct headers by default. Could someone post an
> > example of what the correct headers would be and/or an example of a
> > "correct" Apache configuration for this?
> 
> Provided that all your xhtml files have a uniform extension (say .html)
> and a uniform encoding (say iso-8859-1), and provided that you serve
> them as text/html (but this applies trivially to application/xhtml+xml),
> you can add (or amend an existing entry) the following directive:
> AddType text/html;charset=iso-8859-1	html

Thanks. Just to clarify my specific case:  

We are an American web hosting company. Nearly all of our pages are in
American english. Some pages will include declarations to declare their
own content type, others won't. I think in our case it's reasonable to
assume that for pages that don't declare a document type, defaulting 
to a standard American english kind of character set is reasonable.

	Mark

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