Character encoding not declared

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The HTML doesn’t declare its character encoding, so browsers may show accented letters and symbols as garbage.

What triggers this issue

• No <meta charset> (or equivalent http-equiv) in the HTML.

Why it matters

Without a declared encoding, a browser may guess wrong and turn “café” into “café”. Declaring UTF-8 also lets the browser start parsing sooner.

How to fix it

1. Add <meta charset="utf-8"> as the very first element in <head>.

<meta charset="utf-8">