CSS: Declare Charset

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

By default, CSS file is assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, unless the server or other mechanism says otherwise.

However, you can declare it in your CSS file, by putting the following in the first line:

@charset "UTF-8";

For a introduction on Unicode, see: Unicode Basics: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8

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Syntax and basic data types#charset


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