Empty text in git and broken encoding in files, how to fix it?

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Hey guys!

I am working on a project. Old, from the pre-Covid era, on Bitrix. He has a weird encoding.
In the git, where the text is empty, only punctuation marks and numbers:


In the files it’s like this:


At the same time, the site itself displays ok, but as soon as I upload, let’s say, new text, it immediately turns into heresy:


I even set it in htaccess AddDefaultCharset UTF-8. Files in UTF8 without BOM. Nothing helps.
The only working way is to edit the texts directly through the admin panel on the production site. That's how it works.

I want to work normally with the site, making changes to the repository and not getting a broken encoding at the output. Can anyone come across?

Answer 1

The encoding of the files themselves is probably CP1251, and you edit the files using UTF-8, hence the problems.
Set up the CP1251 encoding in a text editor.