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MUZ140259 Juliana Kofi
9,532 Pointshow do you set character set
what do they mean by character set
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset ="utf-8">
<title>Juliana|Designer> </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Juliana</h1>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,867 Points<meta charset ="utf-8">
is for the Unicode encoding.
In the old days of the web prior to HTML5, sometimes people use different charsets -- ANSI, ISO-8859-8, among others.
Nowadays, utf-8 is the default encoding for HTML5, and generally speaking, you should always use utf-8 because it's a better encoding than the other older charsets, has good support for multi-languages, and will make your life as web developer easier.
Zach Studdiford
6,212 PointsI'm pretty sure it tells the browser what characters it can use. (such as A-Z, or 1-9, or @, &, and $). There are several different types of character sets. ANSI has Letters a-z, numbers 1-9, and a few special characters such as $%^&*. IOS-8859-1 Has 256 characters. It was the default character set for HTML 4. UTF-8 covers almost all the symbols in the world. You should add a charset to the top of every web page like this:
<meta charset = "UTF-8">
or this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">