Title: validation error: no character encoding.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# validation error: no character encoding.

 *  [abbyj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abbyj/)
 * (@abbyj)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-no-character-encoding/)
 * I just used w3c markup validator and it gave me 2 error messages. this is the
   first:
 * >  Info No Character encoding declared at document level
   >  No character encoding
   > information was found within the document, either in an HTML meta element or
   > an XML declaration. It is often recommended to declare the character encoding
   > in the document itself, especially if there is a chance that the document will
   > be read from or saved to disk, CD, etc.
 * I had a problem editing some pages and switched from visual to html editor and
   back. Could that have caused a problem?
    Of course my setting in reading is UTF-
   8.
 * thanks in advance

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