Declaring the Encoding
All text documents, (X)HTML files included, are saved with a character encoding. Since there are many encodings in use in the world, it’s a good idea to declare which encoding your page was saved in right in the (X)HTML code. This makes it easier for browsers on systems with different default encodings to view the characters in your pages correctly.
To declare the character encoding:
In the head section of your page, type <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=encoding" />, where encoding is the character encoding with which you saved the file.
Your Web page’s character encoding depends on the way you saved it. If you saved it in a text-only format—and didn’t choose a special encoding—it’s a safe bet ...
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