On-Page SEO

Character Encoding

Quick Definition

Character encoding tells the browser which character set to use when rendering text. UTF-8 is the universal modern standard.

In context

Always specify UTF-8 in your HTML (<meta charset='UTF-8'>). Other encodings can cause garbled text, especially with non-English characters and special symbols.

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