When you sometimes have to transfer a website from one hosting to another (you’ll definitely need to eventually), you may experience that the files load in another encoding, thus you didn’t edit or change the files anyway.

This may be overridden via simple .htaccess directive:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Going further, you can try some complex directives for certain file types:

AddCharset UTF-8 .html
AddType 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8' txt

Or using FilesMatch:

<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js)$">
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
</FilesMatch>

Or set the encoding for a particular file:

<Files "index.html">
AddCharset UTF-8 .html
</Files>

• Previous Entry: Free HQ Stock Easter Vector Images
• Next Entry: PHP serialize / unserialize