On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:14:32PM -0700, security.is.privacy@videotron.ca wrote:
> 
> >Number:         14346
> >Category:       admin
> >Synopsis:       French caracters making web client not able to load images with filenames containing frech chars
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       high
> >Responsible:    netbsd-admin
> >State:          open
> >Class:          support
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 24 20:15:00 PDT 2001
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Philippe Veronneau
> >Release:        NetBSD-1.5.2
> >Organization:
> Bluexpertise
> >Environment:
> A normal computer	
> >Description:
> I installed netbsd and apache on a netbsd 1.5.2 machine and all is working fine, except that I took all the content of from the old microsoft IIS 4.0 webserver and added it to the apache htdocs folder.
> There seam to be some problem when the web page tries to locate images or .html files that contain french characters like the result when you do the ascii or "ALT 134" or such thing.
> When I type "ls -l" in the folder, instead of seing the right characters, I see instead "?" characters... 
> I would prefer to have a solution so the system would show the right thing instead of having to modify all the .html (they are tons of them).
> When I tried to lynx into the folder, lynx was able to see those specific weird french chars, but in the console "ls -l" won't...
> If there is a solution, I would like to hear from anyone who could help.

For 'ls' install
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/french-1.4/locale.tgz
(works for 1.5 too).
For apache I don't know. I noticed the same problem with apache on linux
so it's not system depenant.
I'm not sure that the http RFC allows non-ascii characters in URLs.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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