Formatting Question

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:37, Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> >> What does the "Page Info" tell you about the document? For instance,
> >> when I browse a local file it is seen as ISO-8859-1 encoding, text/html
> >> MIME type. Is that what you see from the Apache-served file? If not, the
> >> httpd.conf file might be the place to start. The version of Apache you
> >> are running might be an issue.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, that was exactly the problem... the html was encoding in ISO, but 
> > on Apache it was trying to use UTF-8.
> > 
> > I had to make modifications to the main-html.xsl by adding:
> > 
> > <xsl:param name="chunker.output.encoding" select="'UTF-8'"/>
> > 
> > to tell /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/manifest.xsl to not 
> > convert the html to ISO.
> > 
> > --Chris.
> > 
> 
> UTF-8 is a standard, why is the Fedora Doc's program not using UTF-8 as 
> it's default encoding type?

I don't know of any reasons why not... even older Apache can serve out
UTF-8 without a problem, AFAIK. Sounds like a candidate for a new bug in
Bugzilla, eh?

-- 
Paul W. Frields, RHCE