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Ask HN: Why no charset in your head tag?

1 points by hodgesmr ↗ HN
I noticed that Hacker News doesn't provide a charset in its <head>. Is there a reason for this? I would have thought that a site like this would indicate this.

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arkitaip
The charset is specified in the response header. Doctype omission is the major issue here.
[dead] deltazero
Hacker News is not probably the best example of a good website, heh.