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Charset is not UTF-8

Non-UTF-8 encodings corrupt user-submitted text, break copy-paste, and mangle emoji and non-Latin scripts.

Why it matters

Non-UTF-8 encodings can corrupt user-submitted content and break copy-paste.

Example fix

<meta charset="utf-8" />

Authoritative reference

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#charset

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