What is a UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points in Unicode using one to four one-byte code units. Source Wikipedia
Open Nginx Conf File
You can use simple SSH Command for Nginx
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Locate the HTTP Block
Add the following to your HTTP Block
charset utf-8;
This Should look like this
# /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
http {
charset utf-8;
}
Restart the Server
Adding UTF-8 with Html
For Single HTML Documents Simply add UTF-8 with meta tags
<meta charset="UTF-8">
or This Should be in your <head> tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Test after adding UTF-8
You can test the UTF-8 With restarting your server and using the curl command below
curl -I https://yourdomain.com
This will output at the top with the following line
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Powered-By: PHP/7.4
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
