diff --git a/site/.htaccess b/site/.htaccess
index 6fbbfd7926c..f1650fa44a6 100755
--- a/site/.htaccess
+++ b/site/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #Forrest generates UTF-8 by default, but these httpd servers are
 #ignoring the meta http-equiv charset tags
-AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
+AddDefaultCharset off
diff --git a/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess b/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess
index 6fbbfd7926c..f1650fa44a6 100644
--- a/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess
+++ b/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #Forrest generates UTF-8 by default, but these httpd servers are
 #ignoring the meta http-equiv charset tags
-AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
+AddDefaultCharset off