diff --git a/frontend/base.html b/frontend/base.html
index efec765bb9..3843a5aae0 100644
--- a/frontend/base.html
+++ b/frontend/base.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
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     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
     <meta name="description" content="EvalAI: Evaluating state of the art in AI">
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
 
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-    <meta name="twitter:title" content="EvalAI"/>
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+    <meta name="twitter:description" content="EvalAI is an open-source web platform for organizing and participating in challenges to push the state of the art on AI tasks."/>
 
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