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Character encoding problems on a site

2014-01-30

The hosting uses UTF-8 by default. If your site is made in another encoding (often Windows-1251), text may show up as garbled characters.

To find your site's encoding, open a page in the browser, choose "View page source" and look for the charset parameter.

How to fix it:

  1. Open "WWW" -> "WWW domains" -> site.
  2. On the "Site" tab, in "Default charset", choose the site's encoding (for example windows-1251) or "From the page's <meta> (legacy)".
  3. Save the changes.

Character encoding problems on a site

If data from the database is displayed incorrectly, check the database encoding and the connection encoding in your CMS settings.