Changed head doctype to html to invoke html5 tags and attribute status.

Changed local charset for the UK from 88 to utf-8, to removed conflicts in http header and html content charset, but maybe the only reason I had to set the meta charset="utf-8" is because I inserted it in an attempt to resolve the initial error of incompatible charset declarations.

The real problem being the data base locales - local_charset [iso-8859-1]. Setting this to uft-8 resolved the conflict with the one I had put in the meta tag and the legacy windows-1521. Now I'm thinking I can remove the meta tag charset""

Character Encoding (charset) of a document served on the internet informs, for example, how a browser,e.g. Firefox interprets the document. With inconsistent encoding random characters may be displayed rather than intended text.

Document encoding is initially set by the application used to create or edit a file and if this is the intended and preferred choice no manual declaration is needed in the text. Some applications, e.g. Screem, have an option to set the character encoding under user preferences.

Character encoding of an html page may be declared in the file text within the section: or

Still a more overriding declaration is the encoding set by the host serving the file. In the case of a web page this is the HTTP Header.