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Is it important to us lang and metacharset = "utf-8" ?

I have seen the lang attribute used a few times on YouTube videos when I'm looking up coding examples and I've seen the metacharset = "utf-8" alot too.And I wanna know if its important to include when building a website because soloLearn does not go over either of these two.(metacharset = "utf-8", yes. But it was quite breify and didnt explain much.

9th Apr 2017, 1:11 AM
Jinkxa
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@Jinkxa yes, for example... In Italy we have the accented character, when i don't remember to include the meta charset, it becomes illegible. This is only a stupid example, UTF-8 is the default "encoding charset" of HTML5. Include the meta charset to prevent errors.
9th Apr 2017, 1:28 AM
Maz
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No, it is not required, the page will work anyway in the most cases... but: "Will browsers use the proper encoding 99% of the time? If your page is UTF-8, probably. If not, probably not" (StackOverflow)
9th Apr 2017, 1:19 AM
Maz
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Because these tags are related to SEO you can find your answer in SEO tutorial google for em.
9th Apr 2017, 1:15 AM
John Watson
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Thanks very helful oh and @Maz that one code you did with the whole pdf thing was so cool !
9th Apr 2017, 1:31 AM
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hmmm so its not required, but UTF-8 has some importance that is necessary? Is that what you're implying ?
9th Apr 2017, 1:21 AM
Jinkxa
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