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What is the correct way of declaring a HTML5 page to be in Hebrew, RTL and utf-8 encoded? I haven't done it in a while, but I remember that in HTML4 it involved 3 or 4 tags and attributes that seemed redundant. Is it still the same?
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<html dir="rtl" lang="he">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
...
</head>
...
</html>
You need the following:
<!doctype html> to indicate your page is HTML5.<HTML> tag with the following attributes:
dir="rtl"
lang="he"", or use ' instead.<meta> tag to declare the character encoding. You can choose one of the following:
<meta charset="UTF-8">", or use ' instead.<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
" for the http-equiv attribute, or use ' instead for all attributes.meta tags.None of the tags, attributes and attribute values used here, or the DOCTYPE, are case sensitive.
Note: if the browser encounters a character encoding declaration, it will re-parse the document from the start using the specified encoding. You can put your encoding inside a Content-Type HTTP header so this won't be a problem.
Note also that the browser will only look for a character encoding declaration in the first 1024 bytes of a document.
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You need these to create a HTML5 page with language as hebrew, direction as RTL, and utf-8 encoded
<!DOCTYPE html> For declaring it as a HTML5 page
<html dir="rtl" lang="he"> For direction and language
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> For utf-8
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