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Ask HN: no charset info in Google's html?

Is it me or Google is not including charset information in its pages? Either with meta charset or with meta http-equiv.

I haven't been monitoring this, nor do I expect to. Just as a comparison, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter do. What's going on?

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It's set in the HTTP response header:

  Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

  Location:	http://www.google.com/	

  Content-Type:	text/html; charset=UTF-8
	
  Date:	Fri, 18 May 2012 10:37:27 GMT	

  Expires:	Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:37:27 GMT	

  Cache-Control:	public, max-age=2592000	

  Server:	gws	

  Content-Length:	219	

  X-XSS-Protection:	1; mode=block	

  X-Frame-Options:	SAMEORIGIN
	
  Connection:	close

Thanks for your answer. Although I failed to check that, I thought it was considered best practice to including this information in the html document as well.

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