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One of the most common problems with a website is its encoding. And despite this, many Webmasters continue to argue that the browser chooses the encoding itself. Indeed, he chooses the encoding himself, but he does not always do it correctly. This is the most common encoding error: a site in an encoding, for example, UTF-8, and the browser persistently selects windows-1251... Here how to hardcoding via htaccess file, I will explain in this short article.

In order to set file encoding in htaccess just write one line in it:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

If you need windows-1251then so:

AddDefaultCharset WINDOWS-1251

Just one line and now the browser, regardless of its preference, will choose the specified encoding. I say right away that this method is really powerful. You must understand that since the browser does not correctly recognize the encoding of your site (even ignoring the meta tag " ContentType"), then there are reasons for this, so check carefully: everything is displayed well everywhere.

I hope that with this article I helped you solve the problem with the encoding. And in the next article I will talk about the problem related to database encoding... This is also a very common problem that many cannot solve.

1. We have a file: Myfile.html.
2. It is necessary to save it in Unicode encoding -\u003e UTF-8. Solution 1.

1. Open Myfile.html in a text editor Notebook.
2. We select "Save as ...".
3. Choosing UTF-8 encoding.
4. We press the button - Save.

Solution 2.

1. Open Myfile.html in a text editor Notepad ++ (there is still a PSPad editor)
2. Menu -\u003e Encodings.
   Here we see (Notepad ++ determines itself) the encoding of the file we opened.
3. We choose Convert to UTF-8 without BOM (BOM - Byte Order Mark).
   (Kodiroaka "UTF-8 without BOM" is preferred and different from just "UTF-8").
4. Menu -\u003e File -\u003e Save.

Detecting encoding by browsers

We ourselves tell the browser what encoding is set for this HTML file.
This is done using the META tag 1) This example instructs the browser that the uploaded HTML file is saved in utf-8 encoding. If the HTML file is saved in windows-1251 encoding, then: 2) Important!
When transcoding files don't forget to change directives in the META tag to the actual ones.
If one encoding is specified in the META tag, and the file is saved in a different encoding, then we will see "gibberish" on the screen.

3) If the required encoding is specified in the META-tag, but the site still displays "gibberish", then you need to check the site settings on the hosting (web server).
Usually, the hosting site has utf-8 encoding specified in the site settings.
If the encoding windows-1251 is specified in the hosting settings, then you need to change the setting to utf-8.

One of the most common problems faced by a beginner Webmaster (and not only beginners), this problems with encoding on the site... Even I constantly appear when creating sites " abracadabra"But, fortunately, I know perfectly well how to solve this problem, so I put everything in order within a few seconds. And in this article I will try to teach you as quickly solve problems related to encoding on the site.

The first thing worth noting is that all the problems with the appearance of "gibberish" are associated with a mismatch between the document encoding and the encoding set by the browser. Let's say a document in windows-1251, and the browser for some reason exposes UTF-8... And already the following reasons may be the source of such discrepancy.

First reason

Incorrectly spelled meta tag content-type... Be careful, it must always contain the encoding in which your document is written.

The second reason

It seems that the meta tag is spelled out the way you want, and the browser displays exactly what you want, but for some reason there is still a problem with the encoding. Here, almost certainly, the fault is that the document itself has an excellent encoding. If you work in Notepad ++, then at the bottom right there is the name of the encoding of the current document (for example, ANSI). If you put in the meta tag UTF-8and the document itself is written in ANSIthen do the conversion to UTF-8 (via the menu " Encodings"and item" Convert to UTF-8 without BOM").

Third reason

Fourth reason

And finally, the last popular reason is problem with encoding in the database... First, make sure that all your tables and fields are written in the same encoding, which matches the encoding of the rest of the site. If this does not help, then immediately after connecting in the script, run the following request:

SET NAMES "utf8"

Instead of " utf8"there may be a different encoding. After that, all data from the database must come out in the correct encoding.

In this article, I hope I have disassembled at least 90% of the problems associated with the appearance of "abracadabra" on the site... Now you have to deal with such a popular and simple problem as incorrect encoding in no time.

15.03.2016

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Hello!
We continue to learn the basics of HTML. In this lesson we will analyze how to specify HTML encoding for the site (web page).
This lesson is very important, as not knowing how to specify the encoding for a web page can result in your page being unreadable. You ask: "How so, they will not be able to?"
Let me show you what my blog looks like with the wrong encoding:

So, HTML encoding Are tables of correspondence of codes and symbols of the alphabet. That is, our computer will change the encoding code to understandable readable letters.

To tell the browser what encoding the characters of the web page are in, you need to write between the tags this is the meta tag:

Please note that the code contains the word "encoding name". Here you need to specify the HTML encoding.
Usually it is utf-8 or windows-1251.

Encoding forutf-8:

Encoding for windows-1251:

If you forget to tell the browser what encoding the site or web page is in, the browser will try to determine the encoding automatically, but it doesn't always work out correctly. As a result, the result will be the same as I showed in the picture above.

Let's get down to practice.

How to create an HTML document with
utf-8 encoding

"All Programs" \u003d\u003e "Standard" \u003d\u003e "Notepad" :

Page text

For UTF-8 encoding:

Page text

Now you know what site encoding is and where to look for problems if text is displayed incorrectly in any part of the site.

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