On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 08:44 +0100, Chris G wrote: > By default on Fedora 7 the > apache httpd.conf file has:- > AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 > which sets UTF-8 for *everything* served by that apache installation Unless countermanded... I's only a "default." I certainly get different character sets if I do the trick where you play with filenames. e.g. testpage.html.iso88591 and I've set a directive so that file suffixe has meaning. Or if I override it some other way. How are you testing? Some browsers make their own assumptions, and don't tell you what the server really did send. I usually do such tests using: lynx --head http://www.example.com -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.