Taco HTML Edit Help > Text Encodings
Text Encodings specify the format in which text documents are saved to a disk. For documents that contain only English characters and standard punctuation symbols, the "Plain Text (ASCII)" encoding is usually the best choice. This encoding is compatible with web browsers without needing to be declared. UTF-8 is often a good encoding choice for documents that contain international characters or special punctuation. When UTF-8 is used in an HTML document, the encoding must be declared to the web browser for it to render correctly. This can be done by including the following <meta> tag at the beginning of your document within the head section:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
The Open and Save panels in Taco HTML Edit both allow an encoding to be selected that is different from the default value set in Taco HTML Edit's Preferences. If you want to select an encoding that will always be used for a specific document, open the document and then select "Get Info" from the "File" menu. The "Get Info" panel allows an encoding to be selected, which will then become the new default for that document.