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

[TWM]

Does this tag really do anything? Is it neccesary?

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

 

[norbx]

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

 

[TeviH]

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

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