how to fix The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared

Question

My website runs in localhost without any errors; but when I added my site to CPpanel and run members.php page disapeared (it shows white background).

Inspecting the page in console displays this error message :

The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol.

Inspecting the element shows only these lines:

<div style="clear:both;"></div>


    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Could it already be answered here? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11996257/the-character-encoding-of-the-html-document-was-not-declared — Lauri Elias, Oct 21 '14 at 07:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-21T08:44:31.433

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From the error you get, please add this to your <head> ... </head>:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-5">

If the charset above did not work, please try this instead:

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

And I hope you defined the before BODY part of your pages as this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<HEAD>

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

<title> Your Title</title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
....

EDIT 2:
Before including other any other PHP files in your members.php, type this line first:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

edited Oct 21 '14 at 08:44

answered Oct 21 '14 at 07:31

@Tje Please, try the second option (I edited my answer) – Oct 21 '14 at 08:04
same white page.not changed anything. – Tje Oct 21 '14 at 08:21
@Tje is `members.php` the only page that has this problem ? All other pages are ok ? – Oct 21 '14 at 08:23
Yes other pages are ok.only that happen in members.php.thanks – Tje Oct 21 '14 at 08:28
@Tje Ok. Do you have other file included in `members.php` page ? – Oct 21 '14 at 08:29
@Bengueradj Yes dbconfig.php is included and there also some links to some pages. – Tje Oct 21 '14 at 08:41
@Tje Please, try the solution in EDIT 2 of my answer, and tell me if it works. – Oct 21 '14 at 08:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '14 at 07:29

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Have you something like this in header? You put instead of utf-8 encoding of your file.

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

answered Oct 21 '14 at 07:29

Stefan Horvat

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