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HTML HTML Links Anchors

Posted by Cristian Castro
Cristian Castro
Courses Plus Student 12,666 Points

Meta charset="utf-8" is used for what?

Don't understand what the meta charset is for and why it is utf-8

2 Answers

Melisa Hamilton
Melisa Hamilton
11,729 Points
Melisa Hamilton
Melisa Hamilton
11,729 Points

A charset, or Character Set, is used to tell the browser what kind of symbols/characters to display on a web page. There are many different types, but UTF-8 covers the widest range of symbols. You can find more information here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp.

Quentin Jobs
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Quentin Jobs
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 23,599 Points
Quentin Jobs
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Quentin Jobs
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 23,599 Points

Not all browsers are created equally. The charset coding UTF-8 better enables the browser to read the code.