Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:02:13 -0500 From: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) Message-ID: <200702061902.14006.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0702061528w5ad73393w123430e008532566@mail.gmail.com> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200702061750.24340.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <1d3ed48c0702061528w5ad73393w123430e008532566@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Mardi 6 F=C3=A9vrier 2007 18:28, Kevin Downey a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: > On 2/6/07, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Le Mardi 6 F=C3=A9vrier 2007 17:45, Andrew Pantyukhin a =C3=A9crit: > > > On 2/7/07, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > > I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server > > > > (lighttpd) and a file server (samba). The kicker is that I > > > > will need to allow for French characters (=C3=A9, =C3=A0, =C3=A7, e= tc). I had > > > > such an issue before but only managed to solve it at the X > > > > level (via xorg.conf). Now I need to solve it at the console > > > > level. > > > > > > > > The Handbook has a lot of ideas but it seems focused on a per > > > > user basis instead of on a system level basis. Then again, > > > > maybe I just don't understand what its trying to say. > > > > > > > > I would also need to toggle back and forth between English and > > > > French. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance to any responders, > > > > > > Are you sure about the console level? If you plan > > > to access the server via ssh, you only need to > > > set server-side locale right, the rest is handled > > > at the client side. > > > > I assume by server-side you mean within samba and lighttpd. Yes, > > as long as these two can output the characters then I'm happy. I > > just copied the first paragraph of my posting into lighttpd and > > this is what came back in my browser: > > > > I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server > > (lighttpd) and a file server (samba). The kicker is that I will > > need to allow for French characters (=C3=83(c),=C3=83=C2=A7, etc). I ha= d such an > > issue before but only managed to solve it at the X level (via > > xorg.conf). Now I need to solve it at the console level. > > I would check to see what charset lighttpd is serving the file as and > what charset your browser is using (and then just set everything to > utf8) and make sure they are all correct. iso-8859-1 on both I tried setting both my test html document and my browser to utf8 but my=20 browser (FF) did not have it in its list. However, the server-side=20 change allowed me to see the characters. Weird. Thanks a lot Kevin. PM
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