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Bug 201955 - The method for specifing a charset has changed now that we use CGI.pm for header output (bug 201816).

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<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.48 2003-06-28 17:13:45 jake%bugzilla.org Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.49 2003-06-30 21:11:00 jake%bugzilla.org Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>
@@ -1036,24 +1036,21 @@ man 5 crontab
installation has a good backup before making changes, and I recommend
you understand what the script is doing before executing it.</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
bash# perl -pi -e "s/Content-Type\: text\/html/Content-Type\: text\/html\; charset=ISO-8859-1/i" *.cgi *.pl
</programlisting>
<para>Telling Bugzilla to output a charset as part of the HTTP header is
much easier in version 2.18 and higher<![%bz-devel;[ (including any cvs
pull after 4-May-2003 and development release after 2.17.5)]]>. Simply
locatate the following line in <filename>Bugzilla/CGI.pm</filename>:
<programlisting>
# Make sure that we don't send any charset headers
$self->charset('');
</programlisting>
and change it to:
<programlisting>
# Send all data using the ISO-8859-1 charset
$self->charset('ISO-8859-1');
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>All this one-liner command does is search for all instances of
<quote>Content-type: text/html</quote>
and replaces it with
<quote>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1</quote>
. This specification prevents possible Javascript attacks on the
browser, and is suggested for all English-speaking sites. For
non-English-speaking Bugzilla sites, I suggest changing
<quote>ISO-8859-1</quote>, above, to
<quote>UTF-8</quote>.</para>
<note>
<para>Using &lt;meta&gt; tags to set the charset is not
recommended, as there's a bug in Netscape 4.x which causes pages