Title: Weird Encoding Problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Weird Encoding Problem

 *  [Semetery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/semetery/)
 * (@semetery)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-encoding-problem/)
 * Hello there,
 * I was running W3 Total Cache for about two weeks before some of my sites users
   informed me that when they tried to share posts to Facebook, they were getting
   bad encoding issues (just a mess of letters and symbols) instead of descriptions.
   Also, the featured image was often wrong (may be related to a different plugin
   but I thought I’d mention it in case it’s relevant here).
 * I switched cache plugins, using an uninstall guide for W3 (worked fine) and things
   when back to normal only after I re-posted those same articles under the new 
   cache plugin. That’s how I know for sure it was W3 related, those same posts 
   being shared under WP Fastest Cache work fine across the board.
 * I tried different settings and searched around and couldn’t find anything that
   fixed the problem. Has anyone else encountered this and if so, what did you do
   to fix it? I love Fastest Cache, but I feel my site performed a bit more fluid
   with W3.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Willie Jackson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/williejackson/)
 * (@williejackson)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-encoding-problem/page/2/#post-5010410)
 * > If I fully understand you, your cache works on external folders of wordpress
   > folder and you think it’s ok??? oh really?
 * This actually reflects how Apache works, not an issue with W3 Total Cache per
   se. The cache can be bypassed for page cache, database cache, and things like
   that which are in WordPress, but this is not the same for browser caching unfortunately
   which is implemented (in the case of Apache) at the `.htaccess` level which applies
   to the entire domain.
 * Put another way, the behavior you’re seeing would be the case even if W3 Total
   Cache were not present and you were implementing browser caching “manually.”

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