Specify the character encoding using  `<meta charset="utf-8">`

Use the shorter `<meta charset="utf-8">` to specify the character encoding instead of the longer `<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>`.

For more in-depth information about how the character encoding of HTML documents is determined, please see: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding.