diff --git a/views/layout.slim b/views/layout.slim
index d8d0292b..c6556dd1 100644
--- a/views/layout.slim
+++ b/views/layout.slim
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 doctype html
 html
   head
+    meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
     title NeoCities #{@title.nil? ? '' : " - #{@title}"}
     link href="/favicon.ico" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon"
     link href="/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"