Comments on: Change the default Apache character set http://rackerhacker.com/2007/11/15/change-the-default-apache-character-set/ Words of wisdom from a server administrator Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: thornibr http://rackerhacker.com/2007/11/15/change-the-default-apache-character-set/#comment-118 thornibr Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:27:29 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/2007/11/15/change-the-default-apache-character-set/#comment-118 this was done because of the issues with MySQL within RHEL4 prior to that update. See: https://wiki.intra.rackspace.com/kwiki/index.cgi?MySQLhttpCharacterConfig Basically MySQLs global.character_set_results was ISO-8859-1 whereas httpd was UTF-8 RHEL3, 2.1 and whatever else is ISO-8859-1 for httpd. Basically the website page encoding (if not set, AddDefaultCharset in httpd.conf) MUST match character_set_results for MySQL!!!! this was done because of the issues with MySQL within RHEL4 prior to that update.

See:

https://wiki.intra.rackspace.com/kwiki/index.cgi?MySQLhttpCharacterConfig

Basically MySQLs global.character_set_results was ISO-8859-1 whereas httpd was UTF-8

RHEL3, 2.1 and whatever else is ISO-8859-1 for httpd.

Basically the website page encoding (if not set, AddDefaultCharset in httpd.conf) MUST match character_set_results for MySQL!!!!

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