CentOS - Dec 2005 - Server displaying ?

I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look.  Since
moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a "?"
anywhere I
have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see the "
" character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a vertical
bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a different
browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm seeing a ? on
the display, instead of the non-breaking space.

Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct
this?

Thanks, Scott

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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:19:26PM -0600, scott wrote:
> I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look. 
Since
> moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
> server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a "?"
anywhere I
> have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see the
"
> " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a
vertical
> bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a
different
> browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm seeing a
? on
> the display, instead of the non-breaking space.
> 
> Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct
> this?
This surely seems a charset related problem to me.

Try using the "file" command to see your files are using a different
codepage. CentOS 4 uses UTF-8 by default.

[]s

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scott wrote:
> I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look. 
Since
> moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
> server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a "?"
anywhere I
> have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see the
"
> " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a
vertical
> bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a
different
> browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm seeing a
? on
> the display, instead of the non-breaking space.
> 
> Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct
> this?
We ran into this, too.  Look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and find the 
line that reads:

     AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Comment it out and add a line just below it that reads:

     AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1

Then restart or reload Apache.  The problem is that the default 
configuration sets the default character set for all pages to UTF-8 
instead of the 'real' default of iso-8859-1, AKA latin1.  There's a
nice
little block of comments just above it that explains what it is all about.

Hope that helps!
-- 
Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN
jay.leafey at mindless.com
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Jay:
> scott wrote:
> > I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look. 
Since
> > moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
> > server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a
"?" anywhere
I
> > have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see
the "
> > " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a
vertical
> > bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a
different
> > browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm
seeing a
? on
> > the display, instead of the non-breaking space.
> >
> > Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to
correct
> > this?
>
> We ran into this, too.  Look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and find the
> line that reads:
>
>      AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>
> Comment it out and add a line just below it that reads:
>
>      AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1
>
> Then restart or reload Apache.  The problem is that the default
> configuration sets the default character set for all pages to UTF-8
> instead of the 'real' default of iso-8859-1, AKA latin1. 
There's a nice
> little block of comments just above it that explains what it is all about.
>
> Hope that helps!
This did the trick.  Thanks VERY much Jay.  I figured teh problem was
related to that parameter, but just didnt' know what to do with it.  My old
.cof file had it the same way (UTF-8) but not the behavior.  But in any
case, this fixed it.  MUCH appreciated.

Best,
Scott