HTML Charset
HTML charset refers to the character encoding scheme used to interpret and display text on a web page. Character encoding is necessary because computers use binary code to represent text, while humans use a wide range of characters and symbols to communicate. In order to display text correctly on a web page, the computer needs to be able to interpret the binary code as characters.
The most commonly used character encoding for HTML is UTF-8. UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding that can represent any character in the Unicode standard, making it capable of displaying text in multiple languages and scripts. UTF-8 is also backwards-compatible with ASCII, which means that it can handle ASCII characters without any issues.
To specify the character encoding for an HTML document, you can use the <meta> tag in the <head> section of the document. Here’s an example:
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
This tells the browser to use UTF-8 encoding to display the text on the page. It’s important to specify the correct character encoding for your HTML documents to ensure that the text is displayed correctly and that special characters and symbols are interpreted correctly.