There are cases where the cPanel file manager cannot detect character encodings. It may be stuck showing a message such as:
Detecting character encoding for "wp-config.php"
You can fix this by turning off character encoding verification dialogs and selecting your encoding when editing the file. You can do that by doing the following:
- cPanel File Manager Click Settings in the top right
- Check "Disable Character Encoding Verification Dialogs"
- Click save
In the future, you must select the appropriate character encoding for files from the cPanel file manager when editing.