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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Build Structure

Posted by Anthony Yu
Anthony Yu
2,438 Points

What is the character set of a page? What will other character set e.g. 7 bit, do?

I was thinking that character set is a bit like font? But not sure what exactly it affects the formatting of the webpage, would appreciate some help!

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

You're correct. It does stand for 8 bit. But for instance, if you take the same text you have but use a different encoding standard you could get a page that is entirely in Chinese characters! That's probably not what you're shooting for. The charset is literally the set of characters you're using. And they are industry defined. Here's some w3c documentation about what a charset is. https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding

Anthony Yu
Anthony Yu
2,438 Points

very clear answer, thanks!