https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design-v9/lecture-understanding-the-html-boilerplate/what-is-an-html-boilerplate
https://badwebsite.club/bootcamps/spring-2026/ recommends "<meta charset="utf-8" />" as part of your boilerplate. But:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/document-metadata.html#specifying-the-documents-character-encoding
>The only acceptable character encoding declaration for the modern web is UTF-8.
>This must be identified by the character encoding label’s value being an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "utf-8".
>Regardless of whether a character encoding declaration is present or not, the actual character encoding used to encode the document must be UTF-8. [ENCODING]

Lol. Why bother specifying it then?

#HTML #UTF8