what is meta charset utf-8

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I just started learning HTML  no coding background  and don t know what this means  I generally write it when I start the code after  but have no idea what it means  I also do not know what doctype means  What will happen if I don t use it

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That meta tag basically specifies which character set a website is written with.

Here is a definition of UTF-8:

UTF-8 (U from Universal Character Set + Transformation Format—8-bit) is a character encoding capable of encoding all possible characters (called code points) in Unicode. The encoding is variable-length and uses 8-bit code units.

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The characters you are reading on your screen now each have a numerical value  In the ASCII format  for example  the letter  A  is 65   B  is 66  and so on  If you look at a table of characters available in ASCII you will see that it isn t much use for someone who wishes to write something in Mandarin  Arabic  or Japanese  For characters   words from those languages to be displayed we needed another system of encoding them to and from numbers stored in computer memory   UTF-8 is just one of the encoding methods that were invented to implement this requirement  It lets you write text in all kinds of languages  so French accents will appear perfectly fine  as will text like this                 Bzia zbasa               kemi       and even right-to-left   writing such as this                If you copy and paste the above text into notepad and then try to save the file as ANSI  another format  you will receive a warning that saving in this format will lose some of the formatting  Accept it  then re-load the text file and you ll see something like this                 Bzia zbasa               kemi       and even right-to-left   writing such as this

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