Title: Curious: Encoding issue
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Curious: Encoding issue

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-encoding-issue/)
 * If I use the Firefox dev bar, and validate my page, I see this:
    “Encoding: iso-
   8859-1” If I click the ‘Valid XHTML’ link on my page, I see this: “Character 
   Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-
   1) is different from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8). I will use the 
   value from the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) for this validation.” On Options>Reading,
   I have UTF-8 specified. If I View Source, I see only this: “text/html; charset
   =UTF-8” 1.2Mingus It’s probably a complete non-issue, but why the difference ?
   Curiosity …..

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 *  [Guvner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guvner/)
 * (@guvner)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-encoding-issue/#post-80835)
 * Due to extreme laziness I put the following lines in the `.htaccess`` file:
    
   
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    php_value default_charset UTF-8
   
    I prefer to let the
   server tell the files what they are, but using Meta info does make the page more
   portable. Not sure why your meta tag is being ignored but you could try setting
   the encoding as above and see what happens.
 *  Thread Starter [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-encoding-issue/#post-80870)
 * Many thanks !
    I changed the htaccess, it chucked a new validation error at me,
   but now all is well 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-encoding-issue/#post-80870)
 * Status: not resolved

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