Hi, I’m using hugo server locally and AWS Amplify in prod. I’ve noticed that UTF-8 characters in .md files render fine on my dev box, but when I push to prod the UTF-8 characters turn into things like â€œ. Does anyone have any hints on how to debug this? I verified GitHub renders the characters cor…

Solved it. Never forget <meta charset="UTF-8"/> in your <head>. I’m somewhat surprised that my browser treated files served from localhost as UTF-8, but those on the web as ASCII.

Your browser did the right thing. He treated the files the way he received his orders from the server. Your local webserver probably is set up to serve as UTF-8 and your live server isn’t. Happens a lot, because on your local system you set a system language, on a server it’s in most cases set to e…

UTF-8 Characters Appear Garbled in Prod

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UTF-8 Characters Appear Garbled in Prod

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