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Shortest (useful) HTML5 Document
<!-- http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2010/a-minimal-html5-document/ -->
<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>blah</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I'm the content</p>
</body>
</html>
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punund commented Sep 15, 2023

if we're talking about a minimal HTML document, it's certainly not required - but doesn't really seem like a good idea either way.

Now imagine serving files with different encodings off the same web server.
Encoding is inalienable from the document itself. You can't usefully change the encoding without changing the text.

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