Is using HTML entities (for language-specific characters) in UTF-8 necessary?

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Published on 2011-03-15T11:32:05Z Indexed on 2011/03/15 16:19 UTC
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As in the subject-line. Saw the situation the other day on a page which felt weird to me. Except for markup-delimiting characters such as pointy brackets or the ampersand, escaping, say, German umlauts shouldn't be necessary, should it?

Checked the encoding server-side, in-page and by way of HTTP headers, looks completely UTF-8 to me.

What's your take on this and do you reckon it could adversely affect SEO or SERP placement?the page

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