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HTML5 character set

Posted by Kevin Bett about 2 years ago

With HTML you can specify the character set using a meta element. Here is the declaration for a document written in HTML 4.01:

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

And the much more memorable HTML5 version:

  <meta charset="UTF-8">