title: How to change the default encoding to UTF-8 for Apache
body: <p>I am using a hosting company and it will list the files in a directory if the file <code>index.html</code> is not there. It uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ISO 8859-1</a> as the default encoding.</p>
  <p>If the server is Apache, is there a way to set UTF-8 as the default instead?</p>
  <p>I found out that it is actually using a DOCTYPE of HTML 3.2 and then there is not <code>charset</code> at all... so it is not setting any encoding.  But is there a way to change it to use UTF-8?</p>