[Bug]: Character encoding is not declared in the output HTML

[adrianlopezgalera]

Operating system

Linux, MacOS and Windows

Publii version

0.47.6 (lastest)

Post editor

No response

Bug description

I have several sites on a Publii installation. They all preview correctly. Suddenly, without any updates or extensions, one of my sites started exporting its HTML without specifying the character encoding.

This causes my website, which is in Spanish, to display a lot of strange characters, making it ugly and unreadable.

A workaround for this problem is to manually add this line to the HTML header using Publii's built-in HTML editor:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Could this be a database corruption issue?

Steps to reproduce

This bug only occurs in the HTML exported by Publii, not in the preview. This simply happens when this site is deployed to the server. To date, it has only happened on one of my sites. All sites share the same hosting. The other sites, which are managed within the same application, do not appear to be affected.

Relevant log output

I haven't seen anything relevant. Any guidance?

[dziudek]

Hi,

<meta charset="utf-8"> is a part of theme, so if you need to find a reason, you should check if your theme contains this line (usually in partials/head.hbs).

It doesn't look to be an app-related issue. Maybe you have some plugin which filters the output, or you have some theme override which causes lack of the <meta charset="utf-8"> tag?

[adrianlopezgalera]

Thanks for the response. I forgot to point out that it also happens with other themes I've tried. This bug happened overnight, the only change was the server configuration (I did a "migration"; I just exported my site again), but my other sites are on the same server and don't have this problem.

Regarding the extensions, I don't remember making any changes. Typically, when extensions are the source of an error, a message appears when generating the preview. Another factor at play is the fact that the content of my websites is synchronized between several computers (Linux, MacOS and Windows), which has been confirmed to occur in the builds of all three systems. This made me suspect that there could be database corruption, although strange, since the entire site would be damaged.

Regards!

[dziudek]

@adrianlopezgalera in my opinion it has nothing to do with database - the only issue is lack of utf-8 metatag in your theme. Because adding it solves your issue