## 17.2 `@documentencoding enc`: Set Input Encoding

The `@documentencoding` command declares the input document encoding. Write it on a line by itself, with a valid encoding specification following, such as ‘`ISO-8859-1`’.

At present, this is used only in HTML output from `makeinfo`. If a document encoding enc is specified, it is used in a ‘`<meta>`’ tag included in the ‘`<head>`’ of the output:

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