Should the metatags be put with or without an accent?
That is, like this:
<meta name="keywords" content="camión, árbol, lápiz"/>
Or so?
<meta name="keywords" content="camion, arbol, lapiz"/>
My doubt really is if the indexers can recognize the accents.
My question really is whether the indexers can recognize the accents.
YES , the search engines can recognize the accents of your metatags however this will directly affect the search results in them, I would simply advise you to add the encoding that you occupy, for example:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
Here you can see a search on google and compare the difference of results with this other than the word Avion and Airplane , respectively.
As you can see, the first search with the word Avion threw us:
About 100,000,000 results (0.63 seconds)
And with Airplane :
About 56,800,000 results (0.66 seconds)
Here you have another example with two more words without accents, and same with tilde; massotherapie montreal , massotherapie montréal .
In conclusion you can put them with tilde but in one way or another the search will be directly affected through browsers.
I think there would be no problem, although doing a bit of searching the specification of the charset has nothing to do with the coding of metas .
charset: Specifies the character encoding for the HTML document
<meta charset="UTF-8">
then we conclude that the UTF-8 will only encode the content of the html and not the meta.
but giving an alternative to your problem, you can have several
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,JavaScript">
<meta name="author" content="John Doe">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
with that you can put a goal with an accent and another without an accent