Change text encoding when uploading to server?

Question

Django

I upload files to the server (it doesn't matter if it's .html or .py) - in the files, all Cyrillic characters change the encoding from utf-8 to windows-1251 and look something like this "ОткудР".
In html files I charset utf-8also specify in python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
But this does not help. I tend to think that some changes were made in the server settings, because before that everything worked ok.
Nginx installed.
Guys, tell me which way to dig?

Answer 1

I found the reason for changing the encoding - in WinSCP, in settings / editors / built-in, there was windows-1251. Changed to utf-8 and now everything is ok when uploading to the server.

Answer 2

Good afternoon. If the server is apache2, then add the line AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
in the root of the site, in .htaccess