title: Change Explorer character encoding using JavaScript or HTML
body: <p>I'm using the UTF-8 charset to write my HTML and some of the text is in Hebrew.</p>
  
  <p>I use the next lines to specify language for browsers:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html dir="rtl" lang="he"&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Some Explorer browsers which are set on <strong>Encoding: Auto-Select</strong> recognize my website as Hebrew and view the pages in the Hebrew (Windows) encoding. This makes the text show as gibberish because it is in UTF-8.</p>
  
  <p>How can I use HTML or JavaScript to force all browsers to use the UTF-8 encoding and ignore any local settings that say otherwise?</p>