Le Jeudi 30 Janvier 2025 12:18 CET, xse <x...@krkrkr.org> a écrit:

> On 2025-01-30 11:27, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> > httpd uses simple content-type of text/plain for txt files.
> > It does not include a charset so the browser will probably default to 
> > utf8
> > so if the text files are not in utf8 encoding then the browser will not
> > display them correctly.
> > 
> > From my understanding it is not possible to configure a charset in 
> > httpd(8)
> > 
> 
> Syntax is a bit weird but you can force a default type with charset or a
> charset by type:
> 
> default type "text"/"plain; charset=utf-8"
> types {
>          include "/usr/share/misc/mime.types"
>          "text"/"plain; charset=utf-8" txt conf pl sh diff patch md "log"
> }
> 
I successfully inserted this configuration snippet in my httpd.conf
but the problem is still there.

> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Dan wrote:
> >> At this point is maybe suggestable you specify the clients you
> >> are using to access these files to see in case how to troubleshoot
> >> the client encoding / font problem.
> >> 
> >> Jan 30, 2025 10:52:10 Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz>:
> >> 
> >> > httpd serves the file as is, and advices the client with
> >> > a Content-Type header. It is then entirely up to the client
> >> > (typicaly a browser) to display what the server has served.
> >> >
> >> > On Jan 30 09:30:16, sylv...@saboua.me wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I have a folder with several standalone .txt files on my webserver.
> >> >> I expect these to be displayed as such. But when opening them
> >> >> in the browser, either locally (from the same machine) or from 
> >> >> remote, several characters such as accents and em dashes get
> >> >> replaced by other characters.
> >> >>
> >> >> Where could this be coming from ? Searching online for a similar
> >> >> problem I gather that this could have to do with the presence of a 
> >> >> Byte-Order Mark (BOM). If so, is there a handy command on openbsd
> >> >> that allows to delete it from the txt file if present ?
>

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