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biznatch
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Location: Wichita, KS
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 Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: UTF8 issue. Problems with Apache corrupting files. [SOLVED] |
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When I upload files via vsftp to my Gentoo/Apache server they are getting some strange symbols embedded into them. It looks like ASCII text garbage.
When I use firefox to view the site it displays the junk characters, but they do not show up in IE. When looking at the pages locally (before uploading) it looks fine in both browsers.
The junk shows up BEFORE any of my HTML data:
| Code: | View source from firefox...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html> |
| Code: | # head index.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
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| Code: | # file index.html
index.html: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators |
Any idea whould could be going on here?
*** Update #1 ***
If I look at the file in VI it does not show the junk characters.
| Code: | # vi index.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
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*** Update #2 ***
If I cat the file is shows the following...
| Code: | <EF><BB><BF><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
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<EF><BB><BF> seems to be the Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) for UTF-8. Now the only question is how did it get there and how do I remove it?
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pivertd
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Location: Arlon, Belgium
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
I have exactly the same problem.
This BOM tag seems to come when you edit your file with an editor that put the BOM tag.
The NotePad from Windows2003 seems to have this behavior (to confirm).
My only question is How to remove BOM tags ?
We can remove the BOM tag by removing the 3 first bytes of the file. So an alternate question is :
How can I remove the 3 first bytes from a file ?
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biznatch
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Location: Wichita, KS
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using Front Page to edit your webpage? I found that you can go into the page properties and set the character encoding to "US/Western European ISO" to resolve the problem. Other HTML editors may support this as well.
Alternatively, you can modify your http.conf file to serve UTF-8 as default.
| Code: | # cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf |grep AddDefaultCharset
#AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 |
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