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For a browser to know what encoding an HTML file is written in, it must be told. If a browser isn't told, then it may guess wrong and render many characters wrong. The encoding can be communicated to the browser in two ways for HTML files:
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
It is best if both of these methods are used, and of course they must both agree with the actual file encoding. Often you don't have control of the HTTP header, so using the META element is the only option.
For XHTML output, there is a third avenue to convey the encoding. Because the output is XML, it should have an XML declaration, and the declaration should also contain the encoding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
If you have access to Lynx web browser, you can inspect what the server is sending in the HTTP headers with this command:
lynx -head http://testwiki.find11.com/Bulgarian_-_Other
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