Hi,

I’m using Tracks on our SuSE 9.3 server delivered by Apache2.
This works great so far except that german Umlauts in a task text for instance are garbled up.

When I start it through the WebRick server it works well though.

I have just not enough experience with Apache to know where the problem might be.

UTF-8 character set is added if this is important.

Thanks for any help!

Torsten

I don’t have Apache 2, so I can’t test it, but do you find that the glitches go away when you’ve refreshed the page? On lighttpd, Apache 1 and Mongrel, I get the same problem with the Ajax added text, but it resolves once you refresh.

No, it doesn’t go away. I have put the Umlauts in the task description as well as in the note field. In both cases they don’t go away.

Hmm, maybe its an Apache 2 problem then. Is there somewhere that you can configure character sets with Apache?

What Character set is GTD using? UTF-8? I believe we have other UTF-8 applications running with that Apache server.

Should be UTF-8. View the source of the page and you should see the following in the head somewhere:


<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=UTF-8” />


Gee, stupid problem Yes, the meta tag is in the source and guess what: both IE and FireFox claim the html encoding is iso-8859-1. When I switched manually (in both) to UTF-8 the data looked ok.

So, does Apache set the mime type wrong when delivering the page?

It looks like it. If the mime type is set in the page, and it works OK when you set it manually in the browser, then Apache must be doing something wrong I would think.