How to render a non-ASCII character?

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Hello!

I am trying to use a German umlaut (ö) in my Zola .md file and can’t get to make it work.

The HTML eccape code ö just seems to turn into a jumbled mess too. Does anyone know the way around?

# Testing stuff

Royksöpp

It renders as Royksöpp instead of Royksöpp

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Why do you need to escape in Markdown? It should just work if you use Royksöpp

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Hello!

Sorry for not pointing that out in the original post. I did that too (tried a UTF8 character instead) and got the same outcome – the same 2 corrupt looking symbols.

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I think you should add <meta charset="utf-8" /> inside the head element.

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Right! Just noticed that I forgot to do that in my base template.
Yeah, setting the charset to utf-8 fixed the issue :smiley:

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@sal Though, it also implies that using an HTML escape code in markdown, will lead to output which will not render correctly without utf-8 in head XD

No idea if that is intentional.

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