What is meta charset ??

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in HTML

Answer 1

The other great complementary reference source is MDN ( Mozilla Developer Network )...

- <meta charset> in basic use of Html5 document root:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/HTML5/Introduction_to_HTML5

- <meta> generic html tag element reference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta

Answer 2

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set (character encoding) to use. This site goes more into detail: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp