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Whenever I save my header template, the following markup:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

...gets changed to…

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; (anti-spam-charset=)utf8" />

Is this EE doing this? Or does the problem lie elsewhere?

It’s keeps screwing up the characters on a site whenever I update the header template, and the only way to fix it is to change it directly in the database.

Is that literally “(anti-spam-charset=)”? What version and build of EE are you using? This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this.

Yes, it’s exactly that, brackets and all.

It’s ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 - Build:  20090211

With the following extensions:
- Category Checkboxes (v.1.1.5)
- Structure Extension (v.1.1)
- Clone Entries (v.1.1)
- LG Better Meta (v.1.9.1)
- LG Social Bookmarks (v.2.0.2)
- Textile Editor Helper (TEH) (v.1.1.0)
- jQuery for the Control Panel (v.1.1.1)

I’m going to try disabling extensions and trying another few browsers to see if the problem lies elsewhere.

I’ve just tried saving the template with and without extensions enabled, and in both Safari and Firefox and it’s still replacing the “charset=” in the same way?

I guess that only leaves EE or some server setting?

Definitely sounds like a server issue. A quick web search found users of other systems affected, too (WP, e.g.) although it doesn’t seem to be too common. Ask your host about it, please.

Ok, will do.

Very good. Keep us in the loop, please.

It turns out this was an issue with the hosting setup. The hosting company explained they had a security library that parses all form data sent to PHP and changes the data if there is something suspicious. They’ve added the paths to EE’s php files to the list of exceptions and everything works fine now.

Hopefully this will help anyone who comes across a similar problem. It had me stumped for quite a while!

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