title: First site in Portuguese site Meta Tags?
body: <p>I am wondering what the best way to develop a site that is going to be targeted at Brazil. Being from the US i have always used the meta information like below </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-US" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does any of this need to change?</p>
  
  <p>I have seen in a few posts that you should do something like </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;html lang="es"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any experience with sites from outside the US and what type of meta data is need for all the special Spanish characters. </p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
  
  <p>Taking some of the advice below i have realized that this is actually Portuguese not Spanish and have done some research and it looks most sites still use </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And a combination of these </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html lang="pt-BR" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="pt-br"&gt;
  &lt;meta name="language" content="pt-br" /&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="pt-br" /&gt;
  </code></pre>