HTML standard conforming issue?

[debutt]

In default.hbs,

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

The thing is, the new <meta charset="utf-8"> is designed to be backwards compatible. Don't see the reason to use both. Plus, and more importantly, the Standard explicitly states that

A document must not contain both a meta element with an http-equiv attribute in the encoding declaration state (http-equiv="content-type") and a meta element with the charset attribute present.

So doesn't it violate the standard? Or did I misinterpret what the standard is saying?