Character Encoding is Much Easier in HTML5

HTML5 takes the standard META tag for identifying the character encoding and simplifies it. And this is good because it's very important to include the character encoding of your documents to avoid XSS attacks.

Read the full article: Meta Charset Tag in HTML5

Learn More About Character Encoding

• How to Specify the Character Set - Character Encoding in Web Pages
• Character Sets
• Information About the Content-Type Meta Tag