character set

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="">

Browser
Internet Explorer Firefox Opera
Type
Empty

This META element defines the character set of the document.

The META element is placed inside the HEAD element.

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

Attribute Value Explanation
http-equiv=" " Content-Type -
content=" " text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 most western European languages
(English, French, Italian ...)
text/html; charset=US-ASCII English
text/html; charset=UTF-8 every language

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

US-ASCII
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">

UTF-8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Example

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>TAG index</title>
</head>
<body>



</body>
</html>