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I am using a hosting company and it will list the files in a directory if the file index.html is not there. It uses ISO 8859-1 as the default encoding.
If the server is Apache, is there a way to set UTF-8 as the default instead?
I found out that it is actually using a DOCTYPE of HTML 3.2 and then there is not charset at all... so it is not setting any encoding. But is there a way to change it to use UTF-8?
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Open Windows Control Panel -> Region. Go to the Administrative tab and click Change system locale... Remove the check mark next to Beta: Use UTF-8 for worldwide language support. Click OK and restart your computer.
Code points allow abstraction from the term character and are the atomic unit of storage of information in an encoding. Most code points represent a single character, but some represent information such as formatting. UTF-8 is a “variable-width” encoding standard.
The native character encoding of the Java programming language is UTF-16. A charset in the Java platform therefore defines a mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit UTF-16 code units (that is, sequences of chars) and sequences of bytes.
In httpd.conf add (or change if it's already there):
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Add this to your .htaccess:
IndexOptions +Charset=UTF-8
Or, if you have administrator rights, you could set it globally by editing httpd.conf and adding:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
(You can use AddDefaultCharset in .htaccess too, but it won’t affect Apache-generated directory listings that way.)
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