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    Hi folks I know this has been covered but the advice is to get the server company to change the settings eg .htaccess to the correct character set.

    Unfortunatly I chose fasthosts and whilst I have my own shiny server they will merely reboot or rebuild but will not change the character set for me.

    I have the correct just below head in the design template.
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    I have all the access to root ect is anyone on this forum please able to help me change the settings myself with very limited knowledge of linux servers please and this will probably help others in future.

    I have tried creating .htaccess file in the root directory well thats where I think it was using the putty program to no success.

    Many thanks in advance
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    #2
    What did you have in the .htaccess? See here and here.
    Peblaco

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      #3
      Yes tried all those thanks.
      I have .htaccess in /user/htdocs/, acatalog & cgi directory.

      But none work unfortunatly.
      Does anyone know how to edit a config file on server root to enable .htaccess please as I am reluctant to pay fasthost £60 to do this.

      My god the server is certainly fast but also inflexible or is it actinic?
      Does the v9 have the same issue?

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        #4
        Do yourself a massive favour and move hosts. Put fasthosts in the search of this forum if you are in any doubt. It's just not worth it.

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          #5
          Thats a fair call unfortunatly I am commited to a 12 month contract.

          I have been told elsewhere that they disable the .htaccess as it slows down the processes.
          Which other system file can I add the charset command into.

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            #6
            It's probably set to UTF-8 in your Apache config file

            see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/en/...defaultcharset

            If you set it to 'on' rather than 'utf-8' then that might solve it.

            Mike
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              #7
              Thanks will try that one.

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                #8
                Thank you very much everyone.

                For those fasthosts customers like myself

                httpd.conf changes the settings server wide.

                found the file in etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
                Used Putty to edit typing "nano etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"
                Searched for the entry UTF-8

                Changed the entry
                AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

                to

                AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

                To now works a treat.

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