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Can anyone tell me please what is <meta charset="UTF-8">

what is the need of this in html.. or in making of website

15th Mar 2017, 2:10 PM
Md Wasim Ali Ansari
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It sets the website's encoding standard to Unicode UTF-8, which is the most universal character set, incorporating most of modern alphabets.
15th Mar 2017, 2:50 PM
Kuba Siekierzyński
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charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.
15th Mar 2017, 2:20 PM
Ramjivan Jangid
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Actually, with that meta charset you are able to write "non-Latin" characters in your html and it'll understand them. Otherwise you'll see something else instead of Kanji, Arabic... "special" characters.
15th Mar 2017, 2:44 PM
Elias Papachristos
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