Rails layouts, error pages, and public/index now use HTML5.

The specification allows the character encoding meta tag to be removed if character encoding is set at the transport level (Content-Type), which Rails is doing. http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/#character-encoding Signed-off-by: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>
rails · Jan 5, 2010 · 38f6697 · 38f6697 · jpartogi · Jan 6, 2010
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diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/erb/scaffold/templates/layout.html.erb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/erb/scaffold/templates/layout.html.erb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
-  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
   <title><%= controller_class_name %>: <%%= controller.action_name %></title>
   <%%= stylesheet_link_tag 'scaffold' %>
 </head>

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/404.html b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/404.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
-  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
   <title>The page you were looking for doesn't exist (404)</title>
   <style type="text/css">
     body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text-align: center; font-family: arial, sans-serif; }

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/422.html b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/422.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
-  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
   <title>The change you wanted was rejected (422)</title>
   <style type="text/css">
     body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text-align: center; font-family: arial, sans-serif; }

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/500.html b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/500.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
-  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
   <title>We're sorry, but something went wrong (500)</title>
   <style type="text/css">
     body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text-align: center; font-family: arial, sans-serif; }

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/index.html b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/public/index.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
     <title>Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard</title>
     <style type="text/css" media="screen">
       body {