It’s important to specify the character set for your web pages because that tells the browser what characters are valid on the web page. But more importantly, if you don’t specify the character set, your page can be hacked. In fact, if you don’t put the character set tag e.g. as the first line of your HEAD element, your page can be at risk. HTML5 makes it easy to add the character set, as I showed, with a very short “meta charset” tag. But many designers don’t ever define the character set. Where do you define the character sets for your web pages? Continue reading...
