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Discussion on: Why is < meta charset="utf-8" > important?

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Ashley Sheridan

One thing I've always been told was important about this was to make it the very first tag in the <head> section to prevent browsers needing to stop and reparse the html if they guessed the encoding wrongly.

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Maggie

Good point!