Ever since we moved to RHEL 3 platform.... all the special characters in my web pages show up as ? in both Netscape and IE.

For instance... if I put a " in the FrontPage while typing up something and publish the page it shows up as ?. I actually have to go in the code and replace by the HTML code for that character. This happens for all special characters...

Does anybody know the solution to fix this? Do I have to update anything? I am running Apache 2 and believe me, its not FrontPage because I have been using that before on the older box and it worked fine on RH 9.0.

Thanks.

Sounds like the Apache2 issue to me.

They started setting the AddDefaultCharset in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and it ends up overriding everything else, even if you try to hardcode a different character set in your vhost.conf.

SSH into your server, edit httpd.conf file and simply comment out the line that sets AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 and restart apache.