Declare UTF-8 character encoding

Missing or incorrect charset causes mojibake (garbled text), broken special characters, and security vulnerabilities from character encoding attacks.

Quick Reference

• Add <meta charset="UTF-8"> as the first element in
• Must appear within the first 1024 bytes of the document
• UTF-8 supports all languages and special characters

Check

Verify that this HTML document declares UTF-8 character encoding in the head section and that it's positioned early in the document.

Fix

Add as the first meta tag in the head section of the HTML document.

Explain