# UTF-8 as default charset? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [June 2, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311 "2006-06-02T17:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/1 "2006-06-02T17:11:34Z")
It seems that by default radiant/mongrel sens out HTTP headers with charset=“ISO-8859-1” (the standard for text/html where as I want it to send UTF-8 as all my pages are XHTML compliant and in UTF-8. \ in the layout doesn’t seem to make any difference. Any idea? ---
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/2 "2006-06-02T21:18:30Z")
On 6/2/06, Ollivier R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It seems that by default radiant/mongrel sens out HTTP headers with > charset=“ISO-8859-1” (the standard for text/html where as I want it to > send UTF-8 as all my pages are XHTML compliant and in UTF-8. > > \ > > in the layout doesn’t seem to make any difference. > > Any idea? Try this in the head section of your layout: Or go into application.rb, and add this as one of the before\_filters: def set\_charset @headers[“Content-Type”] = “text/html; charset=utf-8” end That will probably get overwritten next time you do an svn update on the source tree. Maybe it’d be better to make a plugin… something like lib/plugins/utf8/init.rb that just modified BaseBehavior and forces it to send a utf8 header? -Pawel ---
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/3 "2006-06-06T12:30:15Z")
On 6/3/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Have you tried setting the content type and charset on the layout? There > is a new field for this in the latest version of Radiant. Found it behind the “more…” button. Thanks, seems to work fine. ---
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/4 "2006-06-03T06:26:33Z")
Ollivier R. wrote: > It seems that by default radiant/mongrel sens out HTTP headers with > charset=“ISO-8859-1” (the standard for text/html where as I want it to > send UTF-8 as all my pages are XHTML compliant and in UTF-8. > > \ > > in the layout doesn’t seem to make any difference. > > Any idea? Have you tried setting the content type and charset on the layout? There is a new field for this in the latest version of Radiant. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/5 "2006-06-08T03:24:52Z")
Ollivier R. wrote: > On 6/3/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Have you tried setting the content type and charset on the layout? There > > is a new field for this in the latest version of Radiant. > > As can be seen at [http://new.keltia.net/](http://new.keltia.net/) it now works for the iste itself. > > Now, how can I force the /admin/ pages to be utf-8 as well, by default, > for form for editing a given page is in iso8859-1 and I have to force utf-8. Can you create a patch for this? I’m fine with the admin interface running on UTF-8 as long as it doesn’t cause problems for others. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-as-default-charset/62311/6 "2006-06-07T17:18:07Z")
On 6/3/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Have you tried setting the content type and charset on the layout? There > is a new field for this in the latest version of Radiant. As can be seen at [http://new.keltia.net/](http://new.keltia.net/) it now works for the iste itself. Now, how can I force the /admin/ pages to be utf-8 as well, by default, for form for editing a given page is in iso8859-1 and I have to force utf-8. Thanks.