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		Grom_PE 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tags to make HTML work like you expect I hate how because of iPhone and subsequent mobile phones we have bad defaults for webpages so we're stuck with that viewport meta forever. If only we had UTF-8 as a default encoding in HTML5 specs too.

jonhohle 87 days ago [–]

I came here to say the same regarding UTF-8. What a huge miss and long overdue.

I’ve had my default encoding set to UTF-8 for probably 20 years at this point, so I often miss some encoding bugs, but then hit others.

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