title: Does HTML5 specify a default character encoding for HTML documents if no character encoding is supplied?
body: <p>An example HTML document retrieved over HTTP lacks:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>a HTTP <code>Content-Type</code> header</li>
  <li>a HTML <code>&lt;meta charset="&lt;character encoding&gt;" /&gt;</code></li>
  <li>a HTML <code>&lt;meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='Type=text/html; charset=&lt;character encoding&gt;'&gt;</code></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>With regards to HTML5, is a default, for example UTF-8, assumed as the character encoding? Or is it entirely up the application reading the HTML document to choose a default?</p>