Meta charset checker

What is a Meta Charset Checker?

The Meta Charset Checker looks for the character encoding declaration on a webpage, typically <meta charset="UTF-8">, which tells the browser how to interpret the bytes of the page as text.

Why Charset Declaration Matters

• Prevents mojibake — A missing or incorrect charset can cause special characters, accented letters, or non-Latin scripts to render as garbled text.
• UTF-8 is standard — UTF-8 supports virtually every writing system in use today and is the recommended default for all modern websites.
• Must be early in the document — The charset declaration should appear within the first 1024 bytes of the HTML so the browser doesn't have to re-parse the page after guessing an encoding.