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Victor Gordian
4,656 Points<meta charset="utf-8">??
Its to format what? what does 8 bit mean? Can you change this format?
4 Answers
Matt Varner
5,373 PointsVictor,
Hopefully, these links can help shed some light. You can change the format of the encoding, but as Joy mentions..."you should use utf-8, and if you're not using that inclusive encoding, you probably have a very good reason for doing it...and you probably already know why."
Joy Keston talks about utf-8 charset encoding in the HTML Head section Forgive me for using the "Treehouse Club" video...I just remember she specifically says something about it there.
One of her links from that video.
Seab Anthony
Courses Plus Student 453 PointsThese were useful. Thanks for the assistance Matt!
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsAn HTML document, or almost any text-based digital document, should have character encoding set so that the characters will be displayed correctly. UTF-8 has become the standard, even increasing internationally for non-western languages, for the Web.
Elad Edri
5,971 PointsUTF-8 is the character set used to encode the text content of your page (i.e. headers, paragraphs etc.). If you're interested in learning more about encoding, I advise you to read the following http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html It is a bit long and tend to be somewhat technical, but will give you a good background on encoding, which can be useful in future programming that goes further than Web development.
Elad Edri
5,971 PointsUTF-8 is the character set used to encode the text content of your page (i.e. headers, paragraphs etc.). If you're interested in learning more about encoding, I advise you to read the following http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html It is a bit long and tend to be somewhat technical, but will give you a good background on encoding, which can be useful in future programming that goes further than Web development.
Raymond Osier
16,581 PointsRaymond Osier
16,581 Pointsyes you can change the charset of the page to find out the reasons why i would refer you to the mdn or mozilla developer network they will have the most comprehensive documentation on the subject