CentOS - Jan 2006 - Apache on CentOS

Does the Apache rpm shipped with CentOS 4.x have UTF-8 enabled as 
the default document encoding for all virtual servers?  If so, then 
why?

Regards,
Jim

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, James B. Byrne wrote:
> Does the Apache rpm shipped with CentOS 4.x have UTF-8 enabled as 
> the default document encoding for all virtual servers?  If so, then 
> why?
Yes. See line 730 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

Why? I can't speak for Red Hat, but I for one support the move away 
from the various, and rather limited, ISO-* character sets to the much 
broader UTF-8 standard. For one thing, it's now the default shell 
environment on RHEL/CentOS boxes. For another, it's (for me, at least) 
a better output format for XML -> HTML transformations, especially 
those that contain non-Latin characters like those in the Greek 
alphabet.

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