Web Pages Show As Text Only

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Web Pages Show As Text Only

bluegrassmedia

1:42 pm on Feb 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

I've been building a website using MS word and I finished all the pages and they all look fine when I open them in a browser locally but after I upload them to my host and try to access them over the web the pages load as plain text and even sometimes in chinese! See here [snip]

The pages still look fine if I open them locally. I've never encountered this problem before. Any ideas?

[edited by: phranque at 1:47 am (utc) on Mar 1, 2015]
[edit reason] no site reviews, please [/edit]

phranque

1:49 am on Mar 1, 2015 (gmt 0)

welcome to WebmasterWorld, bluegrassmedia!

have you tried checking your response headers to make sure the Content-Type header is specified as text/html?
is there any chinese text in the document/resource generated by MS.

lucy24

2:35 am on Mar 1, 2015 (gmt 0)

Open the files in a text editor that shows invisible text. I suspect there's a BOM near the beginning, playing havoc with everything that comes after it. Generally things don't turn into Chinese unless something has encouraged the browser to expect UTF-16 content.

bluegrassmedia

5:50 am on Mar 1, 2015 (gmt 0)

Ok, I fixed it.

SOMEHOW the encoding was changed to UCS-2. I changed it back to UTF-8 in notepad++ and it's all good now.