diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
index a1ab3aa84..cb0248113 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
       = page_title yield(:page_title)
 
     %meta{charset:  'utf-8'}/
-    %meta{"http-equiv" => "Content-Type", :content=>"text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
     %meta{name:  "viewport", content:  "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"}/
     = content_for?(:meta_data) ? yield(:meta_data) : metas_tags