Understanding HTML Charsets: UTF-8, ASCII, ANSI, and ISO-8859-1 Explained

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Understanding HTML Charsets: UTF-8, ASCII, ANSI, and ISO-8859-1 Explained

What is a Character Set (Charset)?When a web browser displays a webpage, it must know which character encoding to use.

A character set defines how characters (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) are represented in bytes. If the wrong charset is used, the text on your webpage might look like random s.

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