HTML 5: Charset REQUIRED!

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  1. J. Bryant New Member

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    Hello all,

    I recently struggled with my website (written in HTML5) for a number of hours until I found out that HTML 5 requires the following code in order to display anything:

    HTML:
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    Pretty weird, huh? I guess that's just the price we pay for an awesome, standards-compliant language.

    Just thought I'd warn everyone so they don't run into this themselves.
    J. Bryant, Mar 16, 2010
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  2. SeoKungFu Active Member

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    yeah, that's the trouble with (over-)compliance...
    SeoKungFu, Mar 26, 2010
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  3. chiroz New Member

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    I don't know the answers either.
    chiroz, Apr 11, 2010
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  4. aryans77 New Member

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    Even i faced the same problem after working on it for many days
    aryans77, Oct 15, 2010
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  5. wmaster New Member

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    Thanks for sharing, I am not into html5 yet but this will be usefull incase.
    wmaster, Jan 19, 2011
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