NAME Apache::DefaultCharset - AddDefaultCharset configuration from mod_perl SYNOPSIS use Apache::DefaultCharset; # This module adds "add_default_charset_name" method $charset = $r->add_default_charset_name; $r->add_default_charset_name('euc-jp'); # via Apache::DefaultCharset object $charset = Apache::DefaultCharset->new($r); print "default_charset_name is ", $charset->name; # or print "default charset is $charset"; will do (overload) $charset->name('euc-jp'); DESCRIPTION Apache::DefaultCharset is an XS wrapper for Apache Core's "AddDefaultCharset" configuration. EXAMPLES Unicode Handling Suppose you develop multi-language web application, and transparently decode native encodings into Unicode string inside Perl (5.8 or over would be better). First you should add AddDefaultCharset euc-jp in your "httpd.conf", then leave off "send_http_header" arguments just to text/html. Then you can get the current configuration with this module when you use "Encode" or "Text::Iconv" to decode the HTTP request query into Unicode. Modification of DefaultCharset Suppose you want to add utf-8 for XML files, and Shift_JIS for HTML files as HTTP charset attribute by default ("By default" means that if you set "content_type" explicitly in content-generation phase, that will be prior to the defalut). This module enables you to write "PerlFixupHandler" to configure "add_default_charset_name" in run-time. AUTHOR Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO the Apache::DefaultCharset manpage mod_perl cookbook at http://www.modperlcookbook.org/