This is must-to-do in Finland, Sweden, Norway or other countries that use characters from Extended ASCII Codes-table. Could work also in other distributions, but i am not sure about apache-config-file locations nor behavior.

Author: Antennipasi

LOCALIZE_DEBIAN_LENNY.txt

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+# For adding more supported languages to server,
+# in console, rerun locale-config by calling:
+
+dpkg-reconfigure locales
+
+# and either choise what you need, or tag "All languages" on top. Note at when having lots of locales in machine, it will slow down
+# installing and upgrading multilingual applications. You can (and should) leave system default as it is.
+
+#For now my "locale -a" outputs this:
+
+bokmal
+bokm�l
+C
+de_DE
+de_DE@euro
+de_DE.iso88591
+de_DE.iso885915@euro
+de_DE.utf8
+deutsch
+en_US
+en_US.iso88591
+en_US.iso885915
+en_US.utf8
+fi_FI
+fi_FI@euro
+fi_FI.iso88591
+fi_FI.iso885915@euro
+fi_FI.utf8
+finnish
+fran�ais
+french
+fr_FR
+fr_FR@euro
+fr_FR.iso88591
+fr_FR.iso885915@euro
+fr_FR.utf8
+german
+nb_NO
+nb_NO.iso88591
+nb_NO.utf8
+no_NO
+no_NO.ISO-8859-1
+norwegian
+POSIX
+sv_SE
+sv_SE.iso88591
+sv_SE.iso885915
+sv_SE.utf8
+swedish
+
+
+# Edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset and add/edit following section:
+
+    AddDefaultCharset off
+
+    # official list of charset names and their respective RFCs.
+    #
+    AddCharset us-ascii    .ascii .us-ascii
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-1  .iso8859-1  .latin1
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-2  .iso8859-2  .latin2 .cen
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-3  .iso8859-3  .latin3
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-4  .iso8859-4  .latin4
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-5  .iso8859-5  .cyr .iso-ru
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-6  .iso8859-6  .arb .arabic
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-7  .iso8859-7  .grk .greek
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-8  .iso8859-8  .heb .hebrew
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-9  .iso8859-9  .latin5 .trk
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-10  .iso8859-10  .latin6
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-13  .iso8859-13
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-14  .iso8859-14  .latin8
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-15  .iso8859-15  .latin9
+    AddCharset ISO-8859-16  .iso8859-16  .latin10
+    AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .iso2022-jp .jis
+    AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso2022-kr .kis
+    AddCharset ISO-2022-CN .iso2022-cn .cis
+    AddCharset Big5        .Big5       .big5 .b5
+    AddCharset cn-Big5     .cn-big5
+    # For russian, more than one charset is used (depends on client, mostly):
+    AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251   .win-1251
+    AddCharset CP866       .cp866
+    AddCharset KOI8      .koi8
+    AddCharset KOI8-E      .koi8-e
+    AddCharset KOI8-r      .koi8-r .koi8-ru
+    AddCharset KOI8-U      .koi8-u
+    AddCharset KOI8-ru     .koi8-uk .ua
+    AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-2 .ucs2
+    AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-4 .ucs4
+    AddCharset UTF-7       .utf7
+    AddCharset UTF-8       .utf8
+    AddCharset UTF-16      .utf16
+    AddCharset UTF-16BE    .utf16be
+    AddCharset UTF-16LE    .utf16le
+    AddCharset UTF-32      .utf32
+    AddCharset UTF-32BE    .utf32be
+    AddCharset UTF-32LE    .utf32le
+    AddCharset euc-cn      .euc-cn
+    AddCharset euc-gb      .euc-gb
+    AddCharset euc-jp      .euc-jp
+    AddCharset euc-kr      .euc-kr
+    #Not sure how euc-tw got in - IANA doesn't list it???
+    AddCharset EUC-TW      .euc-tw
+    AddCharset gb2312      .gb2312 .gb
+    AddCharset iso-10646-ucs-2 .ucs-2 .iso-10646-ucs-2
+    AddCharset iso-10646-ucs-4 .ucs-4 .iso-10646-ucs-4
+    AddCharset shift_jis   .shift_jis .sjis
+
+    AddLanguage ca .ca
+    AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
+    AddLanguage da .dk
+    AddLanguage de .de
+    AddLanguage el .el
+    AddLanguage en .en
+    AddLanguage eo .eo
+    AddLanguage es .es
+    AddLanguage et .et
+    AddLanguage fi .fi
+    AddLanguage fr .fr
+    AddLanguage he .he
+    AddLanguage hr .hr
+    AddLanguage it .it
+    AddLanguage ja .ja
+    AddLanguage ko .ko
+    AddLanguage ltz .ltz
+    AddLanguage nl .nl
+    AddLanguage nn .nn
+    AddLanguage no .no
+    AddLanguage pl .po
+    AddLanguage pt .pt
+    AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
+    AddLanguage ru .ru
+    AddLanguage sv .sv
+    AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
+    AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw
+
+
+#this information could also be in two sections in there, and if most of it looks
+#like to be on place allreydy, most important change is "AddDefaultCharset off"
+
+# After modification, restart Apache
+
+/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
+
+
+