[analog-help] Non-ASCII characters in referrers

[Jason Linhart]

On 10/20/03 10:58 AM analog at welikegoats.com (analog at welikegoats.com) 
wrote:

>Is it possible to attempt to display referrers correctly, ie from foreign
>search engines? Apache logs them as URI-encoded strings, so it's not just
>a matter of changing document character set.
>
>Ideas?

To the best of my knowledge, this is not an easily solved problem. 
Multi-byte characters can appear in several different encodings and I 
don't know of any way to determine which encoding any particular search 
engine is using with only the information in the referer string.

I suppose that there could be a configuration command that tells Analog 
which encoding to expect from each specific search engine, and then code 
to translate search strings into a uniform encoding for the reports. 
Setting this up would entail quite a bit of work, but ought to be 
possible.

Jason

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