Displaying Japanese and Russian web pages

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-07 21:54, Mike Zanker <mike at zanker.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question - if not,
> please accept my apologies.
>
> I have built a copy of the FreeBSD WWW pages and installed them in
> /usr/local/www/ on my apache2 web server. The only problem is that all
> languages are displayed using charset=ISO-8859-1. I'm assuming I need
> to put something in httpd.conf to select the correct charset for
> display of the ja and ru pages but I cannot find this information
> anywhere in the FreeBSD web pages, documentation, etc.
>
> If anybody could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful...

Make sure your httpd setup doesn't force a default encoding.  The pages
should set their encoding themselves (as the Japanese docs do).  They
shouldn't rely on particular setup options of the web server.