What does this meta tag do???

[liunx]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br />
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What can i do with that meta tag or can i delete it?<!--content-->It defines the language character set for a particular language that your site is programmed in.<br />
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Western European, ISO Latin1 (iso-8859-1) <br />
Central European, ISO Latin2 (iso-8859-2) <br />
South European, ISO Latin3 (iso-8859-3) <br />
North European, ISO Latin4 (iso-8859-4) <br />
Cyrillic, ISO (iso-8859-5) <br />
Arabic, ISO (iso-8859-6) <br />
Greek, ISO (iso-8859-7) <br />
Hebrew, ISO (iso-8859-8) <br />
Turkish, ISO Latin5 (iso-8859-9) <br />
Nordic, ISO Latin6 (iso-8859-10) <br />
Central European, Win Latin2 (windows-1250) <br />
Slavic, Windows Cyrillic (windows-1251) <br />
Western European, Win Latin1 (windows-1252) <br />
Greek, Windows (windows-1253) <br />
Turkish, Win Latin5 (windows-1254) <br />
Hebrew, Windows (windows-1255) <br />
Arabic, Windows (windows-1256) <br />
Baltic, Windows (windows-1257) <br />
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If you do not specify a character set, the iso-8859-1 will be automatically used by default...so yes, you can delete that tag if you wish, but it doesn't do any harm to leave it in.<!--content-->Here are more:<br />
Chinese Traditional [big5]<br />
Chinese Simplified [bg2312]<br />
Japanese [euc-jp]<!--content-->