HTML page charset

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I've published my page at GitHub Pages. When I open the site, web browser ignores my charset declarations, but if I open the page's file locally, or from the other file-publication-service, the charset is detected normally. Why this happens at GitHub Pages? And how to code to ensure my charset choice for HTML document?

What I used is below. I put it inside head element.

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=windows-1251" charset="windows-1251">
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