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why charset is used in website

by Dr. Edmond Bahringer DDS Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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The HTML5 specification encourages web developers to use the UTF-8 character set, which covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world!. What is the purpose of a charset? The purpose of the charset parameter is to specify the encoding of the external script in cases where the encoding is not specified at the HTTP protocol level.

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document. The HTML5 specification encourages web developers to use the UTF-8 character set, which covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world!

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The charset attribute in HTML is used to define the character encoding. The charset attribute is used with the and