Firefox sets wrong encoding to directory listings?

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:09:00 +0100 (CET), Martin Sourada wrote:

> Looks like both vsftpd and httpd (Apache) are not very UTF-8
> friendly :-(

httpd and vsftpd do not care about UTF-8 when displaying files,
they just read the filename from the disk and push it to the
client. It's up to the client to interpret the data.
HTTP has the ability to send a charset with the data, while FTP
has not.

Using "HEAD <yoururl>" you can easily inspect the header information
sent by your HTTP server and look if it sets the charset information
correnctly. HEAD is part of the perl-libwww-perl package.