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Website Charset Checker

Check a website's declared character encoding (charset) - HTTP header and HTML meta tag.

Enter a domain to check its declared character encoding (charset) from both its HTTP header and HTML meta tag.

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What Is the Website Charset Checker?

The character encoding tells browsers how to turn bytes into text. This tool reads the charset declared in the HTTP Content-Type header and in the page's HTML meta tag and checks that they agree.

When to Use It

When accented letters, symbols or Hindi text show as garbled characters such as "Ã©".
After moving a site between servers or databases.

How to Use It

Enter the domain or URL.
Compare the header and meta charset values.

Understanding the Result

UTF-8 is the standard for the modern web. Declare it in both places - Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 and <meta charset="UTF-8"> as early as possible in the head.

Limitations

The tool checks declarations, not whether the stored text is actually encoded correctly - mismatched database or file encodings can still corrupt characters.

Frequently Asked Questions

An incorrect or missing charset declaration can cause special characters, accented letters, or non-Latin text to render as garbled symbols (often called "mojibake") in visitors' browsers.

UTF-8 is the modern web standard and supports virtually every language and symbol - it should be declared in both your HTTP Content-Type header and your HTML <meta charset> tag.

Browsers generally prioritize the HTTP header over the meta tag, but a mismatch is still a sign of a configuration issue worth fixing for consistency.