HTML Character Encoding
Learn how character encoding works in HTML. Understand ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8, why the meta charset tag matters, how to fix garbled text (mojibake), and how to save your files correctly. Beginner-friendly with examples.
Learn how character encoding works in HTML. Understand ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8, why the meta charset tag matters, how to fix garbled text (mojibake), and how to save your files correctly. Beginner-friendly with examples.
Learn how character encoding works in HTML: what UTF-8 is, how meta charset tells the browser how to read your page, why text turns into garbled symbols, and how to fix it. Includes a live encoding lab with real bytes and a real page rendered with different encodings.