utf-8 characterset default so presumably there are other character sets?

Question

Q about character sets

Answer 1

There used to be different charactersets for different languages that use different alphabets. The utf-8 standard has support for most of these - if not all, I'm not sure - different languages. So no need to worry about wether you're using the right charset or not when you create documents with non-latin characters.

Answer 2

ISO

Answer 3

variable for alphabe