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Paul D. Waite
Paul D. Waite

Reputation: 98906

Assuming I have control over the server, is there any point in including <meta charset> in my HTML?

I'm running a web site where I have full control of the server and the page content.

I'm currently serving all the pages using the UTF-8 text encoding. I'm declaring this in the HTTP Content-Type header (text/html; charset=utf-8), and in the HTML (<meta charset="utf-8">).

As I understand it, user-agents should (and do) give the HTTP header precedence over the HTML tag.

Given that I'm declaring the encoding in the HTTP header, is there any point in including it in the HTML too?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 111

Answers (1)

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888185

Yes.

This will make sure that the page is rendered correctly for users behind broken proxies that strip or mangle the header.

Upvotes: 2

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