What is Character Encoding?

Technology CommunityCategory: HTML5What is Character Encoding?
VietMX Staff asked 3 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">