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UTF-8 is the primary character encoding on the modern web. It's backward-compatible with ASCII, can accommodate all of Unicode, and every modern software platform and programming language can read and write it. We therefore encourage you to use the UTF-8 encoding for your Bootstrapped HTML.

However, Bootstrap itself doesn't care about what encoding you use, and will work fine if you use other encodings, provided that the browser and the web server both understand the encoding and are both configured correctly.