Can nginx override encoding of Tomcat back end?

Igor Sysoev igor at sysoev.ru
Fri Nov 25 15:34:18 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 03:24:18PM +0000, John Moore wrote:
> On 25/11/11 15:16, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >
> > You can try this, but nginx will scan response body with ISO-8859-1
> > trying to convert it to utf-8:
> >
> > http {
> >      charset_map  iso-8859-1 utf-8 {}
> >
> >      server {
> >          charset           utf-8;
> >          override_charset  on;
> >
> >    
> Thanks Igor. I tried this, but it's still leaving the encoding as 
> ISO-8859-1 (as reported under Page Info in Firefox).

Are you sure that Firefox did not get it from cache ?

> This is 0.6.32 on 
> Windows - I don't know whether a more recent version would help?

Where have you found such version ?
The first nginx/Windows version was 0.7.52.
There were some change in charset module in 0.8.0, so you can try
more modern version.


-- 
Igor Sysoev



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