Thanks David. The links discussing these UTF-8 issues were very educative indeed. Taking a clue from them, I contacted our web hoster and asked them to change the default setting of charset=ISO-8859-1 which was overriding ALL meta tag charset settings. Things work now, and UTF-8 is recognized correctly.
Thanks for the information and help. Best wishes Praveen -----Original Message----- From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:25 AM To: user@forrest.apache.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 setting for Japanese characters David Crossley wrote: > Dr. Praveen Bhatia wrote: > > > > Clearly, the charset is not getting set to UTF-8 in spite of settings that I > > did in forrest.properties, web.xml forrest.xconf, sitemap.xmap (xml > > serializer and html serializer). > > > > What settings I could be missing? > > Some time in the past we had similar issues for our forrest.a.o site. > > See $FORREST_HOME/site-author/content/.htaccess > > #---------------- > # FIXME: Do we still need this? See FOR-877 > AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 > #---------------- > > That issue links to a some other issues which might provide > some background. Ah, following through from http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-877 to the linked issue: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23421 provides very educational reading on this matter. -David
