Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Wrong character encoding when using HTTP (gzip) compression
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Wrong character encoding when using HTTP (gzip) compression

 *  [ragulka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ragulka/)
 * (@ragulka)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-wrong-character-encoding-when-using-http-gzip-compression/)
 * Hi, I’m using W3 Total Cache without problems except this one:
    When I enable
   HTTP (gzip) compression in Browser Cache settings, my character encosing is messed
   up.
 * The site uses UTF-8, but the Response headers are:
    Content-Type: text/html; 
   charset=ISO-8859-1
 * When I disable this feature, the response headers are correct:
    Content-Type:
   text/html; charset=UTF-8
 * Any idea what may cause this? mod_deflate is correctly installed. I’m using the
   latest WordPress (3.0.1) and latest W3 Total Cache (0.9.1.1)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-wrong-character-encoding-when-using-http-gzip-compression/#post-1655036)
 * Can you submit a bug submission form from the support tab of the plugin.

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## Tags

 * [compression](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/compression/)
 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [gzip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gzip/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)

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 * 2 participants
 * 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-wrong-character-encoding-when-using-http-gzip-compression/#post-1655036)
 * Status: not resolved