Title: Character Encoding mismatch! Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Character Encoding mismatch! * [calvinfu1128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/calvinfu1128/) * (@calvinfu1128) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-mismatch/) * Hi there, * Could anyone help me with this? I got the following message while I validated my website using w3 validator. * Character Encoding mismatch! * The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation. * I checked that WP should be using utf-8 and I have no clues where that iso-8859- 1 comes from and how I can fix that. * Many thanks. * Calvin Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Moderator [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/) * (@clorith) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-mismatch/#post-5682384) * Hi, * Could you share your website URL with us so we can have a look at what might be going on please? * Thread Starter [calvinfu1128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/calvinfu1128/) * (@calvinfu1128) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-mismatch/#post-5682389) * Thanks Marius. * Somehow it works now, not sure why. * I will do the validation again when the site is developed. * I shall let you know if I need further assistance. * Cheers. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Character Encoding mismatch!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [charset](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/charset/) * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/) * [mismatch](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mismatch/) * [troubleshoot](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/troubleshoot/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [calvinfu1128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/calvinfu1128/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-mismatch/#post-5682389) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics