What is Character Encoding? Technology Community › Category: HTML5 › What is Character Encoding? 0 Vote Up Vote Down VietMX Staff asked 4 years ago To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set (character encoding) to use. This is specified in the tag: HTML4: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> HTML5: <meta charset="UTF-8">