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HTML

Posted by Helen Yang
Helen Yang
1,046 Points

<meta charset="utf-8">

I tried removing the line and refreshing but I didn't notice a difference between the two pages

2 Answers

Emil Wallgren
Emil Wallgren
11,737 Points

For example! I'm sitting in Sweden. On my keyword I have the letters Å, Ä and Ö from the Swedish alphabet. If I don't use <meta charset="utf-8">, these letters are gonna look really weird to me in the browser. Often replaced by other letters or codes.

Hope this simplifies things.

Till Kuhnle
Till Kuhnle
12,481 Points
Till Kuhnle
Till Kuhnle
12,481 Points

Most browsers threat every html document as utf-8 by default. That statement does only make a difference if a users browser has its default on something else. But its always a good idea to put that in, to be sure the users browser had the correct charset.