HTML encoding for spanish, working locally but not on the server

Question

I am adding spanish as a language and I'm having problems with the encoding.

All the spanish characters work perfectly locally (this makes it harder to debug):

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But on the server they look this way:

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I'm pretty puzzled, you can see the beta version here.

My doctype and charset are the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
...

Which should be correct as far as I understand.

I am using gettext for translations.

I checked and the declared encoding of the .po file is UTF-8.

I also set bind_textdomain_codeset to UTF-8.

I'm not sure where the problem is actually relying.

What's the HTTP `Content-Type` header look like? – deceze Dec 02 '13 at 15:52 — deceze, Dec 02 '13 at 15:52
@deceze https://gist.github.com/trufa/7751639 – Trufa Dec 02 '13 at 15:56 — Trufa, Dec 02 '13 at 15:56

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '13 at 15:58

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Your server is set to serve pages with this Content-Type header:

Content-Type:text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

You need to tell it to serve them as charset=utf-8 instead. You can do this in PHP too:

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

answered Dec 02 '13 at 15:58

deceze

Awesome, it works perfect! but I don't understand where the problem is exactly, why is the server serving another charset? – Trufa Dec 02 '13 at 16:01
Because its default is set differently than your local server. This has nothing to do with what charset you're actually sending, it's just a default line the server adds if you don't do it yourself. – deceze Dec 02 '13 at 16:03
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@Trufa - The server will not waste resources reading your documents and trying to guess what their encoding is. You have to set it explicitly. (Furthermore, guessing would not work.) – Álvaro González Dec 02 '13 at 16:04

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