If instead of a website you see some hieroglyphic gibberish — you might have enabled a wrong character encoding system. You can change it in the .htaccess file.
How to change character encoding via .htaccess
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- Log into cPanel
- On the dashboard, click on File manager.
- Go to the public_html folder.
- By default, .htaccess is hidden. So click the Settings button and check the Show hidden files (dotfiles) mark.
- Now click on .htaccess and click Edit.
- Add at the beginning of the file:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 – if you want UTF-8 encoding
AddDefaultCharset WINDOWS-1250 – if you want Windows-1250 - After you are done with the file, click on Save changes.
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You also should check which encoding is being used in your database.
How to change the encoding in the database
Now clean your browser’s cache by pressing Ctrl+F5 and check whether your website is displayed correctly.