CentOS - Sep 2009 - Apache configuration: minor problem with special characters

Hi,

I'm currently fiddling with protecting sections of a website with 
.htaccess. Here's an example:

<Files .htaccess>
   order allow,deny
   deny from all
</Files>

AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/htpasswd
AuthName "L'acc?s ? ce site est restreint."
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

The configuration works OK (after having created a valid user), but 
unfortunately, the message in the infobox that pops up on the site 
displays the french characters ? and ? incorrectly.

Any idea how I could get this right? I'm more or less starting out from 
Apache's default httpd.conf.

Cheers,

Niki

Niki Kovacs a ?crit :
> 
> The configuration works OK (after having created a valid user), but 
> unfortunately, the message in the infobox that pops up on the site 
> displays the french characters ? and ? incorrectly.
> 
> Any idea how I could get this right? I'm more or less starting out from
> Apache's default httpd.conf.
> 
I found the following workaround. Once my .htaccess file is edited, 
convert it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 with recode:

# recode utf8..latin1 .htaccess

Now the french message displays correctly.

Any other maybe more orthodox suggestions?

Niki

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Any idea how I could get this right? I'm more or less starting out from
> Apache's default httpd.conf.
I don't know how to fix your issue but I would run tcpdump
and see what apache is actually sending, to rule out the browser
being the problem rather than the server.

nate