httpd.conf goodies
I hack on a bunch of httpd.conf files. Right under my nose, in the Apache 1.3 installed in MacOS X Tiger is the following goodie. This is made even funnier by the fact that I've been working with a bunch I18N stuff. Forsaking 7-bit ASCII encodings for UTF-8, and all that.
# EBCDIC configuration:
# (only for mainframes using the EBCDIC codeset, currently one of:
# Fujitsu-Siemens' BS2000/OSD, IBM's OS/390 and IBM's TPF)!!
# The following default configuration assumes that "text files"
# are stored in EBCDIC (so that you can operate on them using the
# normal POSIX tools like grep and sort) while "binary files" are
# stored with identical octets as on an ASCII machine.
#
# The directives are evaluated in configuration file order, with
# the EBCDICConvert directives applied before EBCDICConvertByType.
For those of you not familiar with EBCDIC, you should read this Wikipedia article on EBCDIC. This isn't funny (or comprehensible) to anyone who habitually reads my blog. Never mind.