How to do this. The meta charset declaration should appear as close as possible to the top of the head element. It looks as follows:

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

Values for the encoding attribute can be found in the IANA registry. Note that these are called charset names, although in reality they refer to the encodings, not the character sets.

The IANA registry commonly includes multiple names for the same encoding. In this case you should use the name designated as 'Preferred'.

Note that it is possible to invent your own encoding names preceded by x-, but this is not usually a good idea since it limits interoperability.