Other check
Charset
Reads the character encoding from the Content-Type header, or from <meta charset> when the header has none.
- Category
- Other
- Importance
- Medium importance
- Check id
- charset
How the result is decided
- PassUTF-8.
- WarningAnother encoding, such as ISO-8859-1 or windows-1254.
- FailNo encoding declared anywhere.
Why it matters
Without a declared encoding, browsers guess, and characters like ç, ş or € can turn into garbage.
How to fix it
<meta charset="utf-8">After the fix, open the page’s report and choose Run again to confirm it passes.