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Is it compulsory to use the <meta charset UTF="8" >before starting to code?

17th Jun 2016, 7:00 PM
Benjamin
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It is if your document is going to include any non-latin characters like 'äöæåø', Chinese, Arabic.. etc.
18th Jun 2016, 3:26 PM
ZinC
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
18th Jun 2016, 1:05 AM
Cristian Ossiel Palomo Jalomo
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Not really it's not needed
17th Jun 2016, 11:22 PM
Danyea Taylor
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<!Doctype html> <head></head> <body></body> </html> So you start in html5
18th Jun 2016, 1:07 AM
Cristian Ossiel Palomo Jalomo
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Keep in mind though that UTF-8 is the default character encoding in HTML5, so (theoretically) you don't need to specify it manually.
26th Jun 2016, 10:12 AM
Anatoly Prokofiev
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its html page name
17th Jun 2016, 9:22 PM
zeeshan prince
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