On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:10:25AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I was having the same problem on both machines until I added this line >> in the header: >> >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> >> >> That only fixed it on one Apache web server, not the other. So why >> doesn't that fix it for both servers? I assume it has something to do >> with the Apache configuration. Any ideas? > > That line is interpreted by the browser, the server doesn't care. That's what I thought, but then I thought the browser would use the information to decide how to display the file. Are you saying that the server is actually altering the file as it sends it out? >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> >> >> Do you know why I'm not able to override the default here? > > You need to override in in a .htaccess file, not in the file that you > actually send out. Do you know what I need to do? I went here... http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset ...and tried this,... $ cat > .htaccess AddCharset UTF-8 .html ^D ...which made a .htaccess file, but it didn't change the appearance of the document. Thanks! Mike