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fix: prepend charset meta tag to HTML in save() #823

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fix: prepend charset meta tag to HTML in save()
Mar 14, 2026
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Merge branch 'main' into fix-unicode-save-charset
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion great_tables/_export.py
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Expand Up @@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ def save(
file = str(Path(file).with_suffix(".png"))

# Get the HTML content from the displayed output
html_content = as_raw_html(self)
# Prepend utf-8 charset so the Chrome webdriver renders unicode correctly
html_content = "<meta charset='utf-8'>" + as_raw_html(self)

wdriver = _get_web_driver(web_driver)

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