what is the purpose of meta tags in master pages

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What is the use of below two tags?

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8,chrome=1" />

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

using

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8,chrome=1" /> 

getting compatibility issues in IE11

Please explain the use of these tags?


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Krishna..

Posted 25-Jun-15 18:01pm

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Updated 25-Jun-15 18:54pm

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Raul Iloc · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-25T19:11:00

1.The first meta tag is necessary in the case that you have to manage an old application (or old web pages), designed for old IE verssion and you want that your web pages to be rendered without problems in new versions of IE browser.

2.The 2nd meta tag specifies the character encoding that will be used in your web application. This tag is needed for example in the case of using of internationalization (German, French, etc.) and you want that the special characters form the used languages to be rendered correctly.