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Another item that usually and wrongly gets dropped is the Character Set Encoding. It is important to declare in which character set the page is encoded... This is talking about Umlauts like ä and the likes... If one is using only english, the page may be encoded in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), if you're using plenty of 'weird characters', and you're from a place called 'Old Europe' then you might want to try Windows-1252. If you're from Japan, Korea, Punjab or any other place that doesn't even use the (to me normal) latin alphabet, you're better checking out this W3C list of charsets.
You can put your encoding into a meta tag in the <head> section of the web page. Like so:
