[MPlayer-mirror] content encoding configuration

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Robert Henney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:25:48PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Three of our mirrors - www2, www3 and www4 - are serving all pages as
> > ISO-8859-1 no matter which encoding the pages specify.  This is a
> > problem since it will make many translations have broken characters.
> > 
> > http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/pl/index.html
> > 
> > shows the problem.  The page contains the right charset setting
> > (iso-8859-2), but apparently the web server serves it as iso-8859-1.
> > 
> > I'm not exactly sure what the cause of this problem is, but it needs to
> > get fixed.  If anybody can investigate and share the solution here that
> > would be much appreciated.
> 
> I don't know enough about it to explain the reasons, but I think it's
> intentionally done for security.
> 
> from the apache conf here:
> 
>     # Default charset to iso-8859-1 (http://www.apache.org/info/css-security/).
>     AddDefaultCharset on

Umm, we don't have any dynamic content, so I fail to see how this can
affect us.  Also note that this is not a small issue.  The Russian and
Chinese translation are *completely* broken, Polish is heavily affected.

Diego