charset=iso-8859-1 meta tags???

TWM · 09-13-2005, 03:10 PM

Does this tag really do anything? Is it neccesary?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

norbx · 09-13-2005, 09:20 PM

yeah it basically says what type of content it is trying to load to the browser and some other stuff :P

TeviH · 09-14-2005, 05:46 AM

language/character set. Like if you wanted to create a site using Chinese characters.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

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