diff --git a/django/conf/admin_templates/base.html b/django/conf/admin_templates/base.html
index 9fe4bbab8e..ac0b092d51 100644
--- a/django/conf/admin_templates/base.html
+++ b/django/conf/admin_templates/base.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en">
<head>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% block stylesheet %}{% load adminmedia %}{% admin_media_prefix %}css/base.css{% endblock %}" />
{% block extrastyle %}{% endblock %}