Can I use for my AMP pages for Google meta charset and page encoding NOT in utf8; but windows-1251 for example?
I can't find any info in the specification about it.
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Why would you want to use a character set other than UTF-8 for AMP?– Stephen Ostermiller ♦Commented Feb 8, 2019 at 21:19
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Because all my content is win1251, it is a big portal 20 y. old :)– SeobmenCommented Feb 8, 2019 at 21:49
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UTF-8 should support Cyrillic characters. I have not found any AMP documentation that suggests that you can use anything other than UTF-8. Could you possibly re-encode the text as the page is compiled?– tshimkusCommented Feb 8, 2019 at 21:59
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You cannot use anything else than UTF-8 for the meta charset, as noted in the AMP HTML Specification:
Required markup
AMP HTML documents MUST
... contain a
<meta charset="utf-8">tag as the first child of their head tag
https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec#chrs
Possible solutions to converting your content's encoding depend on the server technology you are using.
You can set the charset to anything you want:
<meta charset="utf-8">
However, know that users using a different character set will see a lot of garbled characters in your pages. If your website is 20 years old I would say it is time for a facelift and a few tweaks. You can find online utf-8 encoders that will make it easy for you.
