title: How to force a specific code page for a website?
body: <p>HI
  I have the following (apparently simple) problem: I have to install a simple website, made by someone else, on a web hosting account. The site consists of lot and lot of HTML pages, no dynamic content, created some in MS Word and saved as html, some in frontpage, etc. A mixed bag. </p>
  
  <p>I uploaded initially on a test account on my server (Win Server 2003) and it works ok.
  Then I uploaded on the real web hosting (fedora / apache).
  When I loaded the site in browser I see lot of odd craracters (instead of diacritics, used in html pages). Duacritics were saved as escape code, like &amp; #350; for Ș (using codepage 1252).</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, when I load the page from my own test server, the browser select automatically correct codepage (1252).</p>
  
  <p>But when I load the site from public host, the same bowser loads the page using utf-8 encoding, rendering page with odd caracrets.</p>
  
  <p>The test site on my server can be seen at <a href="http://radu-stanian.dnsalias.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://radu-stanian.dnsalias.com</a> and on public server at <a href="http://radustanian.scoli.edu.ro/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://radustanian.scoli.edu.ro/</a></p>
  
  <p>This happens no matter what browser I use (IE, ff or chrome)</p>
  
  <p>What should I do to force browsers to load the pages in correct codepage?</p>
  
  <p>Making changes to every page is not an option, because there are hundreds of pages, created by various peoples which could edit them further for update</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>