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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Good point!
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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.Good point!