Can't get UTF-8 as default charset

[dualmonitor]

Hello friends.

I'm having a rough time making one of the sites I admin using cPanel to offer the HTTP header that reads:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

No matter what changes I make, the site continues to offer:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

The funny part is that other sites I admin correctly offer utf-8 in the headers but one site just refuses to do so.

I've read old threads like this one:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/apache-charset-problem-74657.html

...but for the life of me none of the modifications I make seem to help.

Does anyone have any suggestions? There must be one place I could evoke the change I haven't looked yet.

 

[kdean]

Is it being specified as a meta tag in the HEAD of the output HTML?

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

 

[dualmonitor]

Yes I do have

<meta charset="utf-8" />

in the HEAD of the output HTML.

But in my particular use case, I need it to appear in the HTTP headers.

 

[kdean]

That should set it in the headers if you're using HTML 5. If not, try the longer…

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Also, check the .htaccess file to make sure the content-type and charset aren't being manipulated there as well.

If that doesn't work, you may need to provide an actual link to your site so we can take a closer look.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

You can try adding the following line to the /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/pre_virtualhost_global.conf file:

AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

Then, restart Apache via:

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

Thank you.