Meaning of a tag

Question

What does the tag <metacharset=UTF8> do in html??

Answer 1

That meta tag basically specifies which character set a website is written with. Here is a definition of UTF-8: UTF-8 stands for (U from Universal Character Set + Transformation Format—8-bit) It is a character encoding capable of encoding all possible characters (called code points) in Unicode.
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Answer 2

It is not necessary to include <meta charset="blah"> . As the specification says, the character set may also be specified by the server using the HTTP Content-Type header or by including a Unicode BOM at the beginning of the downloaded file. 

Answer 3

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Answer 4

So is it compulsory to put it in your code?

Answer 5

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