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+AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
+#AddCharset UTF-8 .html .xhtml
+
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /
+
+# change the content-type response header of xhtml files for IE
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .xhtml$
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/4(.*)MSIE
+RewriteRule .* - [T=text/html]
+
+#RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml+xml
+#RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !application/xhtml+xmls*;s*q=0
+#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .html$
+#RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} HTTP/1.1
+#RewriteRule .* - [T=application/xhtml+xml]
+