Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications
See The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
Note ... this is probably the most important message about utf-8 :
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
But that meta tag really has to be the very first thing in the <head> section because as soon as the web browser sees this tag it's going to stop parsing the page and start over after reinterpreting the whole page using the encoding you specified.
Hmmm ... how long have i been a webmaster and im just now getting this ...
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