Why are Chinese Traditional (Big 5) fonts served up by Apache garbled?

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In migrating an Apache web site from RHEL 5 to CentOS 5 I noticed Chinese Traditional (Big 5) fonts look fine on the old site, but are garbled on the new site.

In Firefox, I can get the fonts to display properly by clicking View -> Character Encoding -> and changing “Unicode (UTF-8” to “Chinese Traditional (Big 5)”.

How can I tell Apache to set the character encoding properly?

Answer

In a default CentOS 5.5 installation, Apache is configured with the AddDefaultCharset Directive set to “UTF-8”. Commenting it out and restarting Apache fixed the problem:

[root@cbdb ~]# cd /etc/httpd/conf
[root@cbdb conf]# cp -a httpd.conf httpd.conf.orig
[root@cbdb conf]# vi httpd.conf
[root@cbdb conf]# diff httpd.conf.orig httpd.conf
747c747
< AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
---
> #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
[root@cbdb conf]# service httpd restart

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Source : Link , Question Author : Philip Durbin , Answer Author : Philip Durbin

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