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Yes, I clicked the link. I see no reason why so-called boilerplate includes JavaScript, <meta> tags, and a whole bunch of CSS.

If you want to display non-ASCII characters, use XHTML5 -- trying to get Unicode working portably in HTML5 isn't worth the grey hair.

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It includes the reset CSS so that you can get your design working consistently across UAs. The JS was included so you could use the fancy new HTML5 in old versions of IE. Seems like a reasonable include. The reset CSS is basically mandatory either way, regardless of what version of HTML you use. I'm not sure what you mean by getting Unicode to work in HTML5. UTF-8 encoding is pretty universal at this point and not dependent on your markup version -- not to mention the existence of character entities. There's a Unicode entity on this very page and this site doesn't even use a doctype: ♥

I strongly suspect jmillikin is taking the piss and the tone may not be being transmitted with the text. It is the same argument as the article itself, reductio ad absurdum.

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