Title: [Plugin W3 Total Cache] Character encoding
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin W3 Total Cache] Character encoding

 *  [missfriendly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missfriendly/)
 * (@missfriendly)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-character-encoding/)
 * Hi – ok, I hate all discussions about character encoding, because I can never
   get it right.. but on my WordPress blog I can write a post with foreign and special
   characters such as à and é without using the HTML encoding for them.
 * When these posts are pulled from the W3 Total Cache cache, the character à displays
   as gobledigook unless I change the HTML code of the post to be à
 * I have a ton of posts with references to foreign towns, to change all of them
   would take a very long time. Is there a setting I can change in W3 Total Cache
   to make this work? Thank you!

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 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-character-encoding/#post-1636284)
 * Can you provide a sample page for me to check out please?
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-character-encoding/#post-1636314)
 * It should also be noted that W3TC doesn’t change your site’s charset meta tag
   nor interfere with the content type header.
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-character-encoding/#post-1636315)
 * It should also be noted that W3TC doesn’t change your site’s charset meta tag
   nor interfere with the content type header.

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## Tags

 * [character encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-encoding/)
 * [special-characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/special-characters/)

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-character-encoding/#post-1636315)
 * Status: not resolved

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