If you use JSF 1.2 or higher you need change it like this:
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
</h:head>
it can be part of template.xhtml