 <p>In addition to <strong>JapanPro's</strong> answer:<br> Your HTML can have :</p> <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>instead of an implicit header declaration: </p> <pre><code>HTTP-header (Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8) </code></pre>