[PLUG] Re: WYSIWYG HTML editor (redux.?)

[Wil Cooley]

In gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland, you wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Wil Cooley wrote:
>
>> Perhaps this is a better solution: Ensure that your web server is 
>> using the same charset in the HTTP headers and the document itself 
>> is using. At least, that's what people are telling me, although I 
>> haven't entirely sorted it out yet.
>
> My bias is toward moving all my web pages to UTF-8, so here's what I 
> did...
>
> First, I made sure that the DocBook stylesheets produced UTF-8 output. 
> I did that by writing a custom wrapper around the default xhtml 
> stylesheet:
>
><xsl:stylesheet
>       version='1.0'
>       xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
>    <xsl:import
>         href="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
>
>    <xsl:output
>         method="xml"
>         encoding="UTF-8"
>         indent="no"
>         doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>         doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>
>
>    ...
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Second, I set Apache up to serve UTF-8 by default:
>
>     AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>
> So the files are Unicode-encoded and the web server lets clients know 
> about it:

Thanks; I'll give that a shot.  I don't know enough about XSLT to have
figured that out on my own.  What I did instead was put 'AddDefaultCharet
iso-8859-1' in a <Directory/> block and now everything seems copacetic.
Apache 2 (or at least the config shipped by RHEL/CentOS) defaults to UTF-8.

Wil
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