title: htaccess UTF-8 encoding for .html, .css, .js - Whats the best way?
body: <p>For yslow page speed I want to remove my meta tag and put my encoding into the .htaccess file. Below are all the ways to do it I have read about. Which is the preferred way? Also is the language setting a good idea too - and if out side of the filesmatch will it apply to all file types? </p>
  
  <p>1) <a href="https://github.com/jancbeck/My-Wordpress-Boilerplate/blob/master/htaccess.txt" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/jancbeck/My-Wordpress-Boilerplate/blob/master/htaccess.txt</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>AddDefaultCharset utf-8
  AddCharset utf-8 .html .css .js
  DefaultLanguage en-US
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>vs</p>
  
  <p>2) <a href="http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/using-http-headers-with-htaccess.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/using-http-headers-with-htaccess.html</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;filesMatch "\.(html|css|js)$"&gt;
  AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
  DefaultLanguage en-US
  &lt;/filesMatch&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>vs </p>
  
  <p>3) I suspect this is all that's needed. But untested. </p>
  
  <pre><code>AddCharset UTF-8 .html .css .js
  DefaultLanguage en-US
  </code></pre>