Title: Specify a character set
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Specify a character set

 *  [hozefze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hozefze/)
 * (@hozefze)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-a-character-set/)
 * Hello,
 * Google PageSpeed Insights reports “no encoding header”. How could I add such 
   header: `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8`?
 * According to [http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset.en](http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset.en)
   and to [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#addcharset](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#addcharset)
   it can be added to the `.htaccess` file this way:
 * `AddCharset UTF-8 .html .htm .php .js .css .xml .svg`
 * See [https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rendering#SpecifyCharsetEarly](https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rendering#SpecifyCharsetEarly)
 * Can this be enabled via W3TC? Please help!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [hozefze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hozefze/)
 * (@hozefze)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-a-character-set/#post-3889943)
 * why was my last post deleted???
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-a-character-set/#post-3889944)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping)

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## Tags

 * [character set](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-set/)
 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [headers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/headers/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)
 * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)
 * [W3TC](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3tc/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-a-character-set/#post-3889944)
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