How to change Default Charset in Apache ?

Hi,
I'm on CentOS 5 and like to change default charset of 'ISO-8859-1' to 'UTF-8' in my Apache 2.2 Server.
Added following line:

Code:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Restart Apache and checked default server page, it says good UTF-8. But when running perl scripts:

Code:

http://serverip/cgi-bin/myscript.pl

Checking from browser (Firefox, View->Character Encoding) says charset is "Western ISO-8859-1" instead of expected UTF-8 .

Do I need to change any other setting in Apache in order to force UTF-8 for all contents? Kindly suggest.

Thanks

 

This file for debian /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

 

Thanks for reply but as I already mentioned, I'm on CentOS 5

Just wanna hint, is there anything else, I need to update in Apache?

 

Does the Perl script maybe set its own charset?

 

Might be, I have instructed programmers to have a look in it. Meanwhile, I just create a very simple perl script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "Web Server running fine.";

and checked. Browser reports UTF-8.
Another annoying fact is that If I try to explore a directory:

Code:

http://serverip/cgi-bin/

Its showing 403 Forbidden and reporting chatset as "Western ISO-8859-1".

Do directories also have something to do with Charset?

 

That page is coming from Apache.
Do you see any directives in your Apache configuration that are related to iso-8859-1?

 

Regarding Apache configurations, I didnt specified any other Charset in my httpd.conf. About the 403 page, I found it in /var/www/error/HTTP_FORBIDDEN.html.var and updated UTF-8 in it everywhere (including html file in include directory). Still, browser is showing "Western ISO-8859-1" charset..

any further clue?

 

Unfortunately not...