title: Why do we need the meta content type tag in HTML head?
body: <p>Why do we need to include the meta content type tag in HTML head like this? </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>