Why no <meta charset="utf-8" /> in application.html.erb?

Rails
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I’m reading “Dive into html5” and in
http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#encoding
, it says every page should contain ,
otherwise it’s subject to security vulnerabilities (http://
code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/ArticleUtf7). I don’t see being generated in my application.html.erb (in
rails3) Is there a reason behind this?

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On Jul 29, 10:08 am, johnny [email protected] wrote:

I’m reading “Dive into html5” and inhttp://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#encoding
, it says every page should contain ,
otherwise it’s subject to security vulnerabilities (http://
Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.). I don’t see being generated in my application.html.erb (in
rails3) Is there a reason behind this?

because rails sets the content-type header (which, as the article you
linked to notes, is the preferred mechanism for this)

Fred