autoindex list UTF-8 charset in Nginx

Question

My nginx autoindex page does not display UTF-8 characters correctly, utf-8 problem

I have set the charset utf-8; in my server block config section of nginx.conf file but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.

A similar problem is described in [this blog post](https://zeldor.biz/2011/07/nginx-charset/) which files it under Linux. The solution was to set the charset. — Seth, Mar 03 '20 at 06:26

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 03 '20 at 10:36

Add charset UTF-8; to either http, server or location.

Here's the relevant parts of my /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf, now autoindex shows UTF characters.

server {
  listen 80;
  charset UTF-8;
  location / {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    location /some/path {
      autoindex on;
    }
  }
}

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