On 10/10/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:11:37AM +0100, Greg Thomas wrote:
What you showed originally was the HTML setting the charset, with the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
This is embedded in the HTML, and overwritten by any content-type presented in the HTTP headers, which is completely different.
What is the CGI script written in? It probably has a line something like
print "Content-Type: text/html\n";
change that to
print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
There's a line in the config file:-
py["locale"] = "en_US.iso-8859-1"... and there's also:-
py["blog_encoding"] = "iso-8859-1"... but the output from the browser is still obstinately defaulted to UTF-8.
Is there a way you can examine the headers that the CGI script is presenting without Apache getting in the way - with Perl you could just run the script from the command line, and it would send the output to stdout. Check and see if there is a content-type header specifying the right charset. I suspect not. Googling turns up http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/cgi-intro.html which suggests that the header is output explicitly ('print "Content-Type: text/html"').