HTML at the start of the coding

[guitariststuff]

What goes where the ***** go?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=*****" />

I am using HTML 4.01? Can anyone help me with what i put in here?

[jbinbpt]

The long and complete version is here [w3.org]

or just use this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

[Dabrowski]

I started using UTF-8 as I once had a page with foreign characters that didn't display right.

[Fotiman]

I also use UTF-8:

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

Here's more info on charsets:
[w3.org...]

Note, the W3 suggests that utf-8 "is likely to be the best choice of encoding for most purposes, but it is not the only possibility."
[w3.org...]