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| author | jake%bugzilla.org <> | 2008-04-04 13:46:39 +0200 |
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| committer | jake%bugzilla.org <> | 2008-04-04 13:46:39 +0200 |
| commit | 5be47f013ebfc6d916f62911d328e24606c73b1e (patch) | |
| tree | 218346f0771d2b1eed20020f40f7324b0afdbc20 /docs | |
| parent | f300fb717af96874f85d95f55e808a45a75c132d (diff) | |
| download | bugzilla-5be47f013ebfc6d916f62911d328e24606c73b1e.tar.gz bugzilla-5be47f013ebfc6d916f62911d328e24606c73b1e.tar.xz | |
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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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/en/xml/installation.xml | 31 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml index ffeab011a..b067ce413 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> --> -<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.48 2008/04/04 06:46:38 jake%bugzilla.org Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.49 2008/04/04 06:46:39 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 <meta> tags to set the charset is not recommended, as there's a bug in Netscape 4.x which causes pages |