allright guys... nice discussion, but does anyone know how to have ubuntu use latin encoding? I already tried dpkg-reconfigure (which was ok with 5.06), but it simply did not work with 6.01. I understand both sides in this argument, however, I don't care... my old stuff is in latin-1 and gnome seems to refuse opening those files... I had to open the text editor and then open the files... forget about double clicking at the file browser... N <div>2006/8/15, Alexander Skwar <<a href="mailto:listen@alexander.skwar.name">listen@alexander.skwar.name</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> · Felipe Figueiredo <<a href="mailto:philsf@ufrj.br">philsf@ufrj.br</a>>: > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 11:33, Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >> > Simos Xenitellis < <a href="mailto:simos.lists@googlemail.com">simos.lists@googlemail.com</a>> writes: >> > > (a website that does not specify encoding is probably a legacy >> > > website). >> > >> > Maybe, but if it's a WWW site, it's implicitly specifying iso-8859-1 >> > by default. >> >> Says who? > > Says Apache's documentation: > > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset"> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset</a> More authorative: RFC2616 - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", section 3.7.1. If no charset is specified, iso-8859-1 is implied. Assuming anything different from this is just plain broken. Alexander Skwar -- Mist, ich habe einen Task-Underrun! -- Martin Schulze -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>