<meta charset=“utf-8”> or <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type”>, which should I use?

Question

In order to define charset for HTML 5 doctype, which notation should I use?

1. Short:

   meta charset="utf-8" 
   

2. Long:

   meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" 
   

Answer 1

See the section Specifying the document’s character encoding in the HTML 5.1 spec:

[…] using a meta element with a charset attribute or a meta element with an http-equiv attribute in the encoding declaration state.

So both ways are fine. (But don’t use both in the same document.)