Content-Type charset won't change-CodePudding

I'm trying to change my website from windows-1251 to utf-8, but it won't budge.

There are a ton of "solutions" to this on web, but any doesn't seem to be sufficient.

Here is what I did:

I changed the encoding of the index.html (smarty template) and index.php files to UTF-8.

I set

 <html lang="ru">
 <head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

in index.html

I set

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

in several places in index.php

I changed
```
default_charset="UTF-8"
```

in php.ini and restarted my Apache(XAMPP) server

And still, the Chrome devtools say my page is "Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1251" and I see gibberish instead of Cyrillic in my browser.

What else can I do?

P.S. my index.html looks like this now:

<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="ru">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        Тест
    </body>
</html>

and I open it dirrectly via the browser: http://localhost:8080/index.html

CodePudding user response：

Check this url. This might help you. charset changing

Edit: Try these.

Set the header before HTML tags.

<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?> <!DOCTYPE html>
when you connect your script to the database you need to specify the same character set for PHP/MySQL connection. Check Old issue

CodePudding user response：

It appeared I had a Chrome encoding extension installed, which was set to Windows-1251: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae