Why no <meta charset="utf-8" /> in application.html.erb?

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm reading "Dive into html5" and in http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#encoding , it says every page should contain <meta charset="utf-8" />, otherwise it's subject to security vulnerabilities (http:// code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/ArticleUtf7). I don't see <meta charset="utf-8" /> being generated in my application.html.erb (in rails3) Is there a reason behind this?

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because rails sets the content-type header (which, as the article you linked to notes, is the preferred mechanism for this)

Fred