diff --git a/themes/hyde/base.tmpl b/themes/hyde/base.tmpl
index eb87a1a..ec996ba 100644
--- a/themes/hyde/base.tmpl
+++ b/themes/hyde/base.tmpl
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 {template base}
 <!doctype html>{\n}
-<html>
+<html lang="{$config.lang}">
   <head>
     <title>{$config.title}</title>
-    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={$config.charset}" />
     <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Vollkorn:regular,italic,bold,bolditalic" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
     <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inconsolata" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
     <link href= "{$config.domain}/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
