diff --git a/site/.htaccess b/site/.htaccess
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index 00000000000..6fbbfd7926c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/.htaccess
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+#Forrest generates UTF-8 by default, but these httpd servers are
+#ignoring the meta http-equiv charset tags
+AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
diff --git a/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess b/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6fbbfd7926c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/site/src/documentation/content/.htaccess
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#Forrest generates UTF-8 by default, but these httpd servers are
+#ignoring the meta http-equiv charset tags
+AddDefaultCharset UTF-8