Example: how to override the encoding of html documents

We want to “explain” to the web server that all HTML documents that are hosted on the server must be “given” to the client in koi8-r encoding, and not in Windows-1251, as the server does by default. To do this, put the following line in .htaccess:

AddType "text/html; charset=koi8-r" .html .htm .shtml

Having received such .htaccess, the Apache web server will issue a header to the client browser, which will indicate that the document is encoded koi8-r.

If your resource contains HTML documents in different encodings (ISO-8859-1, Windows-1250, Windows-1252, UTF-8), then you may need to disable the forced output of headers with windows-1251 encoding. To do this, add the following line to .htaccess:

AddDefaultCharset Off

In this case, the corresponding encoding must be written on each html page in the form of a tag <http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />

These are examples of the simplest use of Apache configuration capabilities through the .htaccess file.

More options:

DefaultLanguage ru
AddDefaultCharset windows-1251
php_value default_charset "cp1251"