Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to i18n woes on a very simple site

After doing some experimentation, it seems like the problem definitely has to do with how the files are read on disk.  When I put all of the encoding directives in nsd.tcl, I find that a windows-1255 file is sent to me as question marks, whereas a UTF-8 file is sent to me just fine.

So the HTTP encoding part is working without a hitch.  It's the file-reading part that is breaking down, somehow expecting UTF-8 when I feed it windows-1255.

Maybe I just didn't modify the right part of acs-templating?  But should I have to do this?  Hmmm...