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The use of this attribute on an a or link element is currently deprecated by the HTML5 specification, so you should avoid using it on those elements. w3c

This tag should not be used in conjunction with the pragma directive.

UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transforamtion Format-8:
Information on UTF code.

You should always specify the encoding used for an HTML or XML page. If you don't, you risk that characters in your content are incorrectly interpreted. This is not just an issue of human readability, increasingly machines need to understand your data too. You should also check that you are not specifying different encodings in different places.
Declaring character encodings in HTML - w3c