On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:32:01AM -0800, Thomas Nyman wrote:
> For instance the file AKTIEÄGARAVTAL.doc  doesnt dispplay properly  
> in the browser. It says AKTIEAÌ^GARAVTAL.doc , howvere when i move  
> the cursor over the filename it shows the pathy with the correct  
> disppay.
> 
> /swish.cgi | head    give the following result
> 
>      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> the browser default encoding is UTF-8
> 
> my terminal can display the characters correctly.
> It only in the webbrowser when doing a swish-e search som they  
> display improperly.

I assume it's a problem of encodings.

Swish indexex as 8859-1 encoding.  So when you print results the
results are encoded in 8859-1.  But if you tell the web client/browser
that the results are in utf-8 then any character values that don't map
exactly to the utf-8 char set from 8859-1 (any eight bit chars) then
they won't display correctly.

If you want to display results using utf-8 then you probably need to
use iconv to convert the results to utf-8.

Here's the iconv perl module:

    http://search.cpan.org/~mpiotr/Text-Iconv-1.4/Iconv.pm

Or just change your http header:

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Of if you don't have control over the http headers:

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />



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Bill Moseley
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