# UTF-8 Characters Appear Garbled in Prod pt 2

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [August 5, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023 "2019-08-05T16:17:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![broniatowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@broniatowski](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/broniatowski)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/1 "2019-08-05T16:17:52Z")

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I have the same problem on my site and despite trying several of the fixes reported on this forum, they don’t seem to have worked. Open to suggestions please!!

My site looks great on hugo server but not so great in prod.

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**Author:** ![zwbetz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/zwbetz/32/16088_2.png) [@zwbetz](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zwbetz)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/2 "2019-08-05T16:36:50Z")

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Hi @broniatowski, I moved your post to a new thread, since the [original thread](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod/16910/5) was already answered.

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**Author:** ![broniatowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@broniatowski](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/broniatowski)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/3 "2019-08-05T16:37:27Z")

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ju52](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/ju52/32/6749_2.png) [@ju52](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/ju52)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/4 "2019-08-06T10:58:05Z")

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sounds like you have to config your web server in the right way.  
ask auntie google or the duck  
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apache+utf-8&ia=web](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apache+utf-8&ia=web)

Hope you will find the solution

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**Author:** ![\_nm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/_nm/32/7662_2.png) [@\_nm](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/_nm)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/5 "2019-08-06T17:48:50Z")

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Make sure your `baseof.html` layout file includes something like this:

```auto
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

```

The relevant part is the `charset`.

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**Author:** ![broniatowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@broniatowski](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/broniatowski)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/utf-8-characters-appear-garbled-in-prod-pt-2/20023/6 "2019-08-06T18:18:17Z")

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Thanks all – I had to contact my server admin to get the server to stop overriding my character settings per ju52’s recommendations. Problem solved!