The Content-Type
meta tag is for telling the destination rendering engine how to process text and special characters. You should encode all special characters anyway (e.g., &
becomes &
for an ampersand) to be safe, but it’s worth keeping this line in there anyway.
utf-8
works for most cases
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
or
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
depending on your doctype
.