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HTML Charsets

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Summary

Charset specifies how a browser converts bytes into text characters to make the writing appear correct. The standard used is UTF-8 because it supports almost all world letters and symbols, including Indonesian characters. By declaring <meta charset="UTF-8">, text such as punctuation and emoji can appear consistent across browsers.

Key points

Charset sets the page text character encoding
UTF-8 is the most common and widely supported standard
Declare with <meta charset="UTF-8"> in <head>
Without the proper charset, a particular text can appear as a strange character.

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