utf-8

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:06 pm

Need to change the output from the server serving the results to UTF-8. We currently have the page setting it but it is ignored.

How is that setting changed?

Post by **mark** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:38 pm

Search settings->Display charset and top html.

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:26 pm

Meta setting does not help as IE reads the first instance. which comes from your web server:
HTTP/1.x 200 Ok
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:23:23 GMT
Server: Thunderstone-Texis/5.01.1170347731
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Post by **John** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:04 pm

Are you sure you applied the setting, it only applies to the test search until you apply it and make it live.

Post by **John** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:18 pm

How were you getting the headers that you sent? When I try here there is no charset on the header:

HTTP/1.0 200 Ok
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:17:50 GMT
Server: Thunderstone-Texis/5.01.1170347731
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:19 pm

Applied and made live..
This:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Comes before this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Full explaination of this is here including the priority order in which they are used. It explains why chaning the meta does not help if a server encoding is given.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:22 pm

On my appliance there is a header..
http://search2.rockwellautomation.com/t ... ubmit=+%BB+

I use firefox addon called live headers

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:25 pm

My second appliance for internal search does not specify the coding, similar to yours. But my external box does

Post by **mark** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:35 pm

Are both boxes running the same versions of software?
Is there any kind of proxy (transparent or otherwise) or load balancer in front of the external appliance?

jgdoke · Post by **jgdoke** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:01 pm

Mark. your information got me to start looking further. I think the problem is on our end. I will let you know.

Thanks
John