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Can u explain me <meta charset="UTF-8"> this?

5th Sep 2017, 1:52 AM
sheikhrafe
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UTF-8 is an encoding method of your document. It will store your socument in UTF-8, converts it back to the original document when used
5th Sep 2017, 2:33 AM
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it means that the browser will read your code in the language of UTF 8
5th Sep 2017, 1:59 AM
Karl Muller
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UTF-8 is the HTML standard
5th Sep 2017, 4:06 AM
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Nope. There are other encryption methods such as UTF-16,ANSI,ASCII,etc
5th Sep 2017, 4:06 AM
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It ISN'T needed in all versions of HTML we currently use
5th Sep 2017, 2:43 AM
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ok...is it always the same?
5th Sep 2017, 4:01 AM
sheikhrafe
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UTF-8 is not an encryption method, and isn't really a language either. Since computers only understand numbers, text encodings such as UTF-8 are mappings of characters we can use to numbers the computer can use. I recommend 2 specific articles to get you started understanding this. https://blog.codinghorror.com/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-plain-text/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
5th Sep 2017, 6:14 AM
Jesse Bayliss
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