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HTML5 / Unicode best practices #6

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dogweather opened this issue Mar 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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HTML5 / Unicode best practices #6

dogweather opened this issue Mar 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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E.g.,

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

But that meta tag really has to be the very first thing in the section because as soon as the web browser sees this tag it's going to stop parsing the page and start over after reinterpreting the whole page using the encoding you specified.

See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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What's good list of true best practices?

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Here's a great article: http://diveintohtml5.info/semantics.html. There are even security vulnerabilities if you don't do this.

Apparently, in HTML5 you can now do this: <meta charset="utf-8" />

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