Marusya's School Notes

Character Set: Encoding

ASCII: The first character encoding standard (also called character set), which defines 127 different alphanumeric characters that could be used on the internet. It supported numbers (0-9), English letters (A-Z), and some special characters like ! $ + - ( ) @ < > .
ANSI: (Windows-1252) was the original Windows character set. It supported 256 different character codes.
ISO-8859-1: The default character set for HTML 4. It also supported 256 different character codes.

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set (character encoding) to use. The ANSI and ISO character sets were limited, so the default character encoding in HTML5 was changed to UTF-8 (Unicode), which covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world. Note: All HTML 4 processors support UTF-8 as well.