Joomla Core Hack - Change page encoding to ISO 8859-1

This is a core hack and you should use it with caution and on your own risk

If you want to change the page encoding of your joomla site from UTF-8 to ISO-859-1 you can do this by editing

 

[....]/libraries/joomla/factory.php

search for 'utf-8'

you will find something like :

$attributes = array (
'charset' => 'utf-8',
'lineend' => 'unix',
'tab' => ' ',
'language' => $lang->getTag(),
'direction' => $lang->isRTL() ? 'rtl' : 'ltr'
);

replace it with

$attributes = array (
'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
'lineend' => 'unix',
'tab' => ' ',
'language' => $lang->getTag(),
'direction' => $lang->isRTL() ? 'rtl' : 'ltr'
);