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Asked: 2026-06-18T17:31:22+00:00

I am using Jekyll which has some issues with UTF-8 files. I was able

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I am using Jekyll which has some issues with UTF-8 files. I was able to work around this by saving the file as Unicode (UTF-16 LE).

However it is an HTML document, which until now I have been using the

<meta charset="utf-8">

line in the file. Is this charset still correct or should I be using another?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found some
    information from the World Wide Web Consortium.

    HTML5 with UTF-16
Ensure that there is a byte-order mark 
at the beginning of the file. 

The HTML Working Group is currently discussing whether 
you can use a meta element declaration in the head 
element when the encoding is UTF-16. For now, don't.
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