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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:38:59+00:00

I use Asp.net In my document I use: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0

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I use Asp.net
In my document I use:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I would like to know if is necessary to add also this MetaTag:

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

Thanks for your tme on this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should add the meta tag, though it is not compulsory.

    The DOCTYPE doesn’t not automatically tell you what the character set is, so you should add the information that the file is encoded as UTF-8.

    You should also ensure the content-type HTTP header is also set to UTF-8.

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