<meta charset=utf-8 />

Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 3:35 PM

The tag works with IE 5+ (from the 90s).

IE wanted to support people who didn't use quotes in their <meta> tag.

Like this :

<meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=utf-8>

As you can see, the charset is on the <meta> tag instead of being in the content="" attribute.

My guess is that IE looks for a charset="" attribute and uses it if found.
Otherwise it goes down the http-equiv="" path.

I'm pretty sure HTML5 chose the <meta charset> because it is already compatible with very old browsers.

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