Is it necessary to force this since it is the default in 7.x?
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becomes

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dcrocks’s picture

dcrocks CreditAttribution: dcrocks commented

sorry should show

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

becomes

"meta charset="utf-8"

grendzy’s picture

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

This is by design, while the encoding (utf-8) isn't changed, the format of this meta tag has been abbreviated in HTML5.

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spaceninja CreditAttribution: spaceninja commented

I agree with you - however, this is really an issue for the core drupal team. Since the core template force UTF-8, I left that behavior intact in this theme, because our only aim was to convert the core markup to HTML5.