HTML character encoding

This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/139).
To enable all characters to be displayed correctly in an HTML page, even if you use different languages (english, japanese, russian, …), a good way is to encode everything in unicode, using the UTF-8 character set representation.

Server & client config

In Apache config file httpd.conf, one of the following must be defined: #AddDefaultCharset on AddDefaultCharset off AddDefaultCharset utf-8 More info: