How to set UTF with .htaccess?

[toplisek]

How to set UTF with .htaccess? I have noticed example:
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

What will be consequences for this line as I have also
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> and all files are stored as UTF-8.

[phranque]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset

AddDefaultCharset should only be used when all of the text resources to which it applies are known to be in that character encoding and it is too inconvenient to label their charset individually.

in your case it is unnecessary.