META tag charset garbled if you specify the

Posted by: admin at 11 Monday 5th, 2008

A previous version of Apache by default AddDefaultCharset directive "ISO-8859-1 (Latin-European languages, French, German)" is specified.
Apache2.2 later, AddDefaultCharset default setting of this directive is not.
httpd.conf and fixes.
httpd.conf is usually located below. 
 /usr/local/apache2/conf
Or 
 /usr/local/etc/apache2

httpd.conf 
 AddDefaultCharset  off
However, in this case, the following pages all the charset must be specified. 
 <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">

All content is the same character coding (charset) in the charset you can also specify the following.
httpd.conf 
 AddDefaultCharset  EUC-JP

Whenever you finish a fix, Apache to restart. 
 # /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart
apachectl will pass through if you do not know how to install different versions and looks in the following way. 
 # which apachectl

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