Ask HN: Why no charset in your head tag?

1 pointsby hodgesmrhá 14 anos1 comments

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.

2 comments

arkitaiphá 14 anos

The charset is specified in the response header. Doctype omission is the major issue here.

deltazerohá 14 anos