Corrupted Character Encoding After Server Restart

  • Hello,
    The issue involves https://funful-schools.com using WordPress 1.2 newly installed and using default UTF-8 for display of English, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified characters. Everything was well, until service provider had a server restart to do “a one-off change”, to “compile Apache/PHP” into “same options” as other servers…
    The strange thing is that now when you first arrive to the Web site, windows-1252 character encoding is used. But it changes back to the default UTF-8 when you refresh.
    This is a big issue for me, as Chinese characters become nonsense when windows-1252 encoding is used. I checked the admin pages and UTF-8 is still being listed. Then I tried changing the character encoding at the admin pages, and then change it back to UTF-8. But the same behavior persists… Please help.
    Thanks,
    Ben

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  • Try putting this in your .htaccess ?
    AddDefaultCharset utf-8

    Hello podz,
    Thank you so much for your help as it is working really well now.
    Best regards,
    Ben

    does anybody have a copy of what it should look like in htaccess …it didn’t work..

    benjaminh

    (@benjaminh)

    Help, I have the same problem I think. Because I didn’t change anything and one day I couldn’t read any of the Chinese characters on my sight. I’d like to see what code should be added and where. Thanks!

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