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What is the important of <meta charset="utf-8"> in html? Cause in sololearn without that code,, output shows normally...

10th Feb 2023, 1:09 PM
Mustakim Rahman
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Mustakim Rahman <meta> is a HTML tag that contains metadata about a web page, or more specifically, descriptors that tell search engines what type of content a web page contains that is hidden from display. <charset> is an HTML attribute that defines the character encoding for your browser to use when displaying the website content. <utf-8> is a specific character encoding. <meta charset="utf-8"> tells the browser to use the utf-8 character encoding when translating machine code into human-readable text and vice versa to be displayed in the browser. for more.. https://dev.to/maggiecodes_/why-is-lt-meta-charset-utf-8-gt-important-59hl
10th Feb 2023, 1:33 PM
Darpan kesharwani🇮🇳[Inactive📚]
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It is important to specify charset so browser will know what to use. If charset is not specified browser will figure out itself what to use, sometimes it won't be good option, also we don't know what browser user have. Check this link to see more about it, it also cover some security problem if charset is not specified : https://portswigger.net/kb/issues/00800200_html-does-not-specify-charset
10th Feb 2023, 1:33 PM
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The meta charset="utf-8" tag is important because it sets the character encoding used by the HTML document. UTF-8 encoding is the standard encoding of the internet and supports a wide range of international characters, including non-Latin characters like Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and others. Furthermore, UTF-8 encoding is widely supported by all modern browsers, meaning the content will be displayed correctly to all users. Without the meta charset="utf-8" tag, the browser may have trouble correctly interpreting special characters in the HTML document, which can result in character display errors. Thus, it is important to include this tag at the beginning of all HTML documents to ensure proper display of the content.
11th Feb 2023, 6:14 PM
Jeová Emanuel
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Thanks Tนktนk PanicS 💯👈
11th Feb 2023, 4:34 AM
Mustakim Rahman
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