page cache disk enhanced – ? characters appear

The fix was simple and it was a character encoding problem.

Just add

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

to your htaccess file in the wp-content/cache/page_enhanced folder and voila problem resolved!

I hope Frederick adds this to future releases.

I don’t have that folder ??

If you have Disk: Enhanced then that folder gets created bt W3TC. Otherwise if its not enabled you probably won’t have that folder.

@nisiwi-

Your solution to add
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

to the htaccess file in the wp-content/cache/page_enhanced folder seems to have worked for firefox and safari, but not chrome, even after clearing the browser cache.

Rob

It works in all browsers as its a standard characterset robnalexpress, not browser specific. Make sure you clear the cache in Chrome using Clear browsing data – Empty the cache and then reload the page while holding shown Shift key to ensure it forces a new page build.

@nisiwi- I revisited the site after a couple hours, and getting your post, and it’s now fine in chrome.

Thanks so much for posting this solution- it’s great to have Disk Enhanced page caching working again. I’ll implement your fix on my other sites tomorrow!

Rob

@nisiwi-

I just tried this fix on another site, and again I can’t see the results in chrome! Tried clearing the cache as you suggested, using Clear browsing data – Empty the cache and then reload the page while holding shown Shift key, and no joy- still seeing the funky characters.

Rob

what about other caches like cloudflare ?

I don’t use cloudflare. This is really bugging me! Pages are displaying fine on every other browser, including chrome on my notebook. I even did a ipconfig/flushdns from CMD prompt. Insane- it’s gotta be a chrome issue.

Rob

not if its working on your notebook with Chrome

have you cleared cookies also ? if not try that (a complete clean) as I’ve found sometimes a corrupt cookie can cause problems

Clearing the cookies fixed it! Who would have thunk it?! Thanks, again, Nic!

Note to other users of the above fix:

If you empty your W3TC page cache after adding “AddDefaultCharset utf-8” to the htaccess file in the wp-content/cache/page_enhanced folder, you may get a W3TC warning that new rules need to be written to the file. If you click auto-install, it will overwrite the change and you’ll be back to square one, so just click “hide this message” and ignore it.

Rob

FWIW, I just upgraded 3 other sites to version, 0.9.2.8, fully expecting to have to use the above fix, however my sites that have a static front page do not have this issue- it’s only on the sites that have a blog index on the front page.

UPDATE: Posted too soon- I’m seeing it on the other sites now too.

Rob

I have this problem too and the UTF-8 code is already in the htacess. When I clear the cache the page appears fine and on the next load it is all characters. The problem has to be related to something else. Compression is turned completely off. I have switched to basic mode.

# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache cache
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options -MultiViews
<Files ~ "\.(html|html_gzip|xml|xml_gzip)$">
  Allow from all
</Files>
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
FileETag MTime Size
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType text/html M604800
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set X-Pingback "https://rashaentertainment.com/xmlrpc.php"
    Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.9"
    Header set Vary "Cookie"
    Header set Pragma "public"
    Header append Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Page Cache cache

Hello all, do you know if this issue is resolved with the current update 0.9.2.9?

Kind regards