HTML · Document structure

meta charset

Declares the character encoding. UTF-8 covers every language and emoji; it should appear in the first 1024 bytes of the document.

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<meta charset="utf-8">

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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Encoding</title>
  </head>
  <body><p>Bangla: বাংলা · emoji: ✅</p></body>
</html>

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