encoding - Text files uploaded to S3 are encoded strangely?

Question

This is the strangest error, and I don't even know where to start understanding what's wrong.

S3 has been working well, up until suddenly one day (yesterday) it strangely encodes any text file uploaded to strange characters. Whenever a text file has ?, ?, ? or any other UTF-8 comparable but none English characters, the text file is messed up. I've tried uploading using various clients, as well as the web interface of AWS. The upload goes well, then I download the file and it's messed up. I've tried downloading it to my Mac, I've tried downloading it onto a Raspberry with Linux on it. Same error.

Is there any encoding done by Amazons S3 servers?!

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I solved it by adding charset=utf-8 in properties -> metadata of the file