2008/12/28 Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]>
can someone explain me what is the strategy to define the mime-type of an attachment? I see not configurable map nor any setter on the attachment types. Is there any way I can enrich this or is it simply taking over the mime-type provided the browser (which, too often, ends up being application/octet-stream) ?
... [sergiu suggests "web.xml. Search for css, and do something similar for your mimetypes."] ...
worked well to one point: the mime-type is added with a charset parameter which is even iso-8859-1 although everything in my environment is set to be utf-8.
Do I have a way to remove that charset for such downloads? That would be the most sensible one.
Perhaps this is relevant:
to [email protected], XWiki Users <[email protected]> date Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM subject Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] support for google sitemaps and webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)
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No matter what I did in my setup, I was getting
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
The roller blog atom feed that *does* work correctly w/ google sitemaps returns:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
I fixed this issue by running java with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 (note the lowercase setting suggested in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Performances seems incorrect?). When that alone didn't work, I also added " -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8-DjavaEncoding=UTF-8" which had been suggested in solving this problem for other Tomcat users. (Now I run java with the following options:-server -Xms160m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=160m -XX:MaxPermSize=320m -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding= UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8 -Djava.awt.headless=true)
I also saw other suggestions to set LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in the tomcat launching script... however, I'm not sure which of my changes "did" it, but i believe that following two steps I'd forgotten||skipped in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Encoding caused the correct encoding to be used: (1) WEB-INF> diff web.xml.~1~ web.xml 23c23 < <param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value> ---
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
(2) WEB-INF> diff xwiki.cfg.~2~ xwiki.cfg 29c29 < xwiki.encoding=ISO-8859-1 ---
xwiki.encoding=UTF-8
With all of the above now reconfigured, I now get the correct output for http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdf : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
... -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com
PS: Why not just have xwiki.cfg's default be: 'xwiki.encoding=UTF-8' ; likewise have web.xml's default for com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter's 'encoding' be UTF-8. These encoding errors that oft go unnoticed are probably resulting in a number of configuration errors, and perhaps other bug-reports that aren't entirely valid, should they depend on encoding issues.